Science Role Quotes

Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race.

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Science has a human origin and a human destination.

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so on, but its cosmological function is to give us a picture of the world we inhabit as human beings, and on that level it's failing a vast number of people.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.