Giordano Bruno Quotes

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.

The basis of religion is independent of science. Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)