Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Science is nothing but perception.

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.

Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

The Gay Science, section 108

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

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

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

Science is not wisdom.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.