Thomas Huxley Quotes

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

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.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

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.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Who does science determines what science gets done.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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.

Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.