C. S. Lewis Quotes

The sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State.

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Biological science is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used for good or bad. It’s like a knife blade with three edges: The edge that cuts, the dull edge that does not cut well and the edge that cuts what you do not want it to.

America [Latin America] shall not lag a century behind Europe: it will stride as an equal first, and lead later; it will, in the end, be the most illuminated by the sciences…

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. […] So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.