Science is never only about facts. It is also about questioning, humility, and the willingness to see the world anew. These quotations reflect the restless, searching spirit of inquiry, where reason, experience, and imagination meet. As Robert M. Pirsig wrote,
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Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. ~ Victor Hugo
The essence of science: ask an impertinent question and you're on the way to a pertinent answer. ~ Jacob Bronowski
Science is the power of man and love his strength; man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
True science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. ~ Albert Einstein
Science is the captain, practice the soldiers. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. ~ Aldous Huxley
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. ~ Bertolt Brecht
Science means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp. ~ Max Planck
Science, when well digested, is nothing but good sense and reason. ~ Stanislaw I Leszczynski
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding. ~ Glenn T. Seaborg