Quotes about Science
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here. Oh, we dont travel at the speed of anything, Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkle.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Twentieth-century man has created his own fantasies through science (...). What fantastic achievements have thereby been made possible in the way of moving faster, growing richer, communicating more rapidly, mastering illnesses, and altogether overcoming the hazards of our earthly existence. But all the achievements have led to a true nature of our being: in other words, an alienation from God. If it were possible to live without God, it would not be worth living at all.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.
— Andy Stanley
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
— Andrew Carnegie
ALKALI (A'LKALI) n.s.[The word alkali comes from an herb, called by the Egyptians kali; by us glasswort.] This
— Samuel Johnson
Spiritual exegesis is not an unrestrained flight of the imagination. Rather, it is a sacred science that proceeds according to certain principles and stands accountable to sacred tradition, the Magisterium, and the wider community of biblical interpreters (both living and deceased).
— Scott Hahn
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
— John Calvin
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
— Aldous Huxley
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
— Max Born
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
— Barack Obama
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
— Thomas Jefferson