Limits Of Science Quotes

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

And what is impossible to science?

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.