Rusty Schweickart Quotes

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

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

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

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

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

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.

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.'

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

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

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.