That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
- Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974). The Ascent of Man, 4, 1973
The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character.
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). 3 January 1935. In Joseph Wortis, Fragments of an Analysis with Freud, 1954
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- T.H. Huxley (1825-1895). “On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge,” 1966, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, 1870
Reason, Observation, and Experience-the Holy Trinity of Science.
- Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899). “Science,” The Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. Vere Goldthwaite, 1906
Science has founded the only true religion. Science is the only redemption of this world.
- Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899). “Science,” The Philosohpy of Ingersoll, ed. Vere Goldthwaite, 1906
Science is organized knowledge.
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical, 2, 1860
