Science Limitations Quotes

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts, since they are practically infinite in number. We must make a selection. Is it not better to be guided by utility, by our practical, and more especially our moral, necessities?

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.