Scientific Quotes

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the attention of the masses.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious ... of being relegated to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.