John Fiske Quotes

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

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 position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

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

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Every science has been an outcast.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

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

There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.

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

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.