To a considerable degree science consists in originating the maximum amount of information with the minimum expenditure of energy.

-Wilson, Edward O(sborne)
  Biophilia.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

-Wolpert, Lewis
  The Unnatural Nature of Science. English   football   commentator.   He   broadcast   for   the   BBC from  1948  to  1971,  covering  22  FA  Cup  finals  and  five  World Cups.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:ö We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

-Wordsworth,William
  'TheTablesTurned', stanzas 6^8.

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.2, l.212^15 (published1850).

   Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it.

-Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron
  In the Daily Mirror.