Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  Letter to Charles Francis  Adams,  Jr,11  Apr.

The student must remember, for his consolation†that his failures are almost as important to the cause of scienceand tothosewhofollow himinthesameroad, as his successes. It is much to know what we cannot do in any given directionöthe first step, indeed, toward the accomplishment of what we can do.

-Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)
  Geological Sketches.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'The Study of Poetry'.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.8.

All science requires mathematics†the knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us†this is the easiest of sciences. A fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it. For laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

-Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis
  Opus Majus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

   Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

-Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)
  Crash.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

-Barzun,Jacques
  Science, The Glorious Entertainment.

Science does not permit exceptions.

-Bernard, Claude
^6  Lessons of Experimental Pathology.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

-Bernard, Claude
  An Introduction to theStudy of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).

Science rejects the indeterminate.

-Bernard, Claude
  An Introduction to theStudy of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

-Bernard, Claude
  An Introduction to theStudy of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

-Bernard, Claude
  An Introduction to theStudy of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).

Politics is not an exact science.

-of)
  Speech to the Prussian Chamber,18 Dec.

He who would do good to another man must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

-Blake,William
c.1804^1807  Jerusalem, plate 55.

Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedomnow parallel in everydetail itsuseas a means of natural manipulation.

-Bookchin, Murray pseudonym of  Lewis Herber
  The Ecology of Freedom.

Science†is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

-Born, Max
  My Life and Views.

Science might almost be redefined as the process of substituting unimportant questions which can be answered for important questions which cannot.

-Boulding, Kenneth Ewart
  The Image.

L'Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure. Art was made to disturb, science reassures.

-Braque, Georges
Notebook entry. Collected in Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers1917^52.