Science does not know its debt to imagination. Reptile or mollusc or man or angel only exists in system, in relation. It assumed to explain a reptile or mollusc, and isolated it, - which is hunting for life in graveyards. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny." ~Isaac Asimov A minutely and elaborately illuminated page of the book of Nature has been turned, and we have only perused a single line. The gates of another world have been thrown open, but we have scarcely passed the threshold. The treasures still left unopened are far richer than even those we have revealed. Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though live ideas are born out of it. ~Miguel de Unamuno, "Intellectuality and Spirituality," translated from the Spanish by J. E. When positivists, or those who consider themselves positivists, try to sweep science clean of metaphors, they sweep them away with a metaphorical broom, and so sweep the metaphors back again. Matter, force, light, memory - all metaphors. Science is built up of metaphors, and language is essentially metaphorical. ~Miguel de Unamuno, "Some Arbitrary Reflections upon Europeanization," translated from the Spanish by J. E. The object of science is life, and the object of wisdom is death. Wisdom is to science what death is to life, or, if you prefer it, wisdom is to death what science is to life. ~Henry James Slack (1818–1896), The Ministry of the Beautiful, "Conversation VI: A Quarry among the Hills," 1850 No savage, worshipping the most preposterous idol, ever believed greater absurdities than a modern sceptic, who makes his small modicum of reason the standard by which to measure the boundless universe. Science has wonders far transcending those of superstition, and they are poor philosophers who try to bring Nature down to the level of their small capacities instead of striving to exalt those capacities to the height of creation's truth. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), "The Character of a Person of my Acquaintance" I traversed the highway to science in the manner of dogs who are taken out for exercise by their masters I turned a hundred times forward and backwards, and when I arrived I was weary. ~Cid Ricketts Sumner, "Magic," A View from the Hill, 1957 Science is all right in its place, but that is no reason for our treating life like something in a test tube. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897 ~Edwin Powell Hubble, "The Exploration of Space," c.1933 Science Quotes & Sayings (Sciences, Scientists, Scientific - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Theories, etc) The Quote Garden ™Įquipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
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