Modern Science Quotes - Page 2

• The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

  Albert J. Nock

  Men, Ignorant, Letters

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• Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Mind

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moving, Science, Men

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• It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Modern, Natural

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5033, Delphi Classics

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• How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!

  Guy Murchie

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

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• A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

  Emily Greene Balch

  World, Way, Reason

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Years, Effort

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• Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Hair, Eyelashes, Age

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Cells, Years

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

  Ernest Gellner

  Men, Play, Different

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• In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Keys, Psychology

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• I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

  Alan Arkin

  Philosophy, Believe, Past

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• [The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Important, Triumph, Daguerreotypes

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• I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Photography, Art, Eye

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the systematic use of science and technology to benefit other people at their [the poor's] expense.

  John Michael Greer

  Appreciation, Wall, School

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• The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspiration, Doubt, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.61, Ballantine Books

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• A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.

  John Hagelin

  Spiritual, Religious, Discovery

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Opposites, Facts

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, Issues, Progress

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Long, Promise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.77, 谷月社

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• Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thrones, Modern, Sole

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• We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Variables, Modern

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• Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Views, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Expectations, Five Senses, Modern

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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