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I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

— Huston Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

— Paul Virilio

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

— Stanley Schmidt

Science is but an image of the truth.

— Francis Bacon

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

— Linus Pauling

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.

— Greg Graffin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

— P. T. Barnum

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

— Tim Hunt

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

— Dan Shechtman

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

— Stanislav Grof