Thomas Huxley Quotes

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

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.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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.

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

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

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.'

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

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

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

There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

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

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

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

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

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

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

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

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.