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'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.