Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.
Science is about unravelling nature.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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.
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.