DieWissenschaft kennt nur ein Gebot: den wissenschaftlichen Beitrag. Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Leben des Galilei ('The Life of Galileo'), sc.14 (translated by Howard Brenton,1980).

Science has nothing to be ashamed of, even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

-Bronowski,Jacob
  'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of  Technology,19 Mar.

At bottom, the society of scientists ismore important than theirdiscoveries.What science has to teach us here isnot its techniques but its spirit: the irresistible need to explore.

-Bronowski,Jacob
  Science and Human Values.

No science is immuneto the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

-Bronowski,Jacob
In The Listener.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained bya few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

-Brown, Olympia
  Sermon in Wisconsin, c.13  Jan.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

-Bush,Vannevar
  Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of  Technology, 5 Oct.

Science, after all, is onlyan expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

-Butler, Samuel
Collected in H F  Jones (ed)  The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. 193

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Latter-Day Pamphlets, no.1,'The Present Time'.

What counts†inscience isto be not so muchthe first as the last.

-Chargaff, Erwin
In Science, vol.172.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Heretics, ch.13.

As soon as questions of will or decision arise, human science is at a loss.

-Chomsky, (Avram) Noam
  Television interview, 30 Mar, reported in The Listener, 6 Apr.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and, at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension and still more beyond his control.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech, Massachusetts Institute of  Technology, 31 Mar.

Je ne suis pas innocente. L'innocence est une science du sublime. Et je ne suis qu'au tout de¤  but de l'apprentissage. I am not innocent.Innocence is a science of thesublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  Vivre l'orange/ To Live the Orange (bilingual text, translated by Ann Liddle and Sarah Cornell).

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

-Commoner, Barry
  Science and Survival.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

-Comte, Auguste Isidore Marie Fran c° oise
^4  Syste'  me de politique positive (Positive Philosophy).

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure scienceöthat of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

-Conant,James Bryant
  Letter to the NewYork Times,13  Aug.

Great isthe powerof steady misrepresentationöbut the Davidson history of science shows how, fortunately, this power does not long endure.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
  The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

False facts are highly injuriousto the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, ch.13.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

-Darwin, Sir Francis
  'Francis Galton', in Eugenics Review, vol.6, issue1,  Apr.