Friday 20 May 2011

Science


By reminding us of our deep cosmic ignorance, science – far from dulling the mystery of existence – sharpens it the way garlic wafting on the evening breeze whets your appetite. It reminds us that we dwell in a mystery that is ultimately more to be savoured than solved.Unknown

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. - Henri Poincare

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. - Phillip Hauge Abelson

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo 

Science may clone a person, but it can never clone his rectitude, which is born out of the choices he made in life. Unknown

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all; the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein

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