Modern Science Quotes - Page 5

• The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

  William Osler

  Science, Mazes, Development

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.118, Duke University Press

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• The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Sustainability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.150, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Stars, Caring

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.187

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• It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.

  Paul Foster Case

  Teaching, Roots, Light

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• Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

  Isaac Asimov

  Faces, Fiction, Literature

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• modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Science, Answers, Problem

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.95, Vintage

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• Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today.

  Subhash Kak

  Years, Age, Would Be

  "The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life". Book by Stephen Knapp, 1990.

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• I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Facts, Revolution, Awareness

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• Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  World, Measurement, Modern

  "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce H. Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.

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• It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

  Honore de Balzac

  Years, Perfection, History

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

  Walter Pater

  Magic, Woven, Warfare

  Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.205

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• It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Thinking, Matter

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• Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Past, Essentials

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.6, Verso

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• It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Simplicity, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1659, Delphi Classics

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• The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Race, Discovery, Incredibles

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, Quest Books

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• What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Science, Choices, Modern

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Religion

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Yoga, Buddhism

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• We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

  David Sarnoff

  Science, Way, Sin

  "Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man?". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 11, 1964.

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• Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cutting, Science, Doubt

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• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  Karl Pearson

  Independent, Science, Men

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Discovery, Law

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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• Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Truth, Science, Errors

  George Perkins Marsh, Stephen C. Trombulak (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, p.80, UPNE

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• Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

  David Seabury

  Feelings, Conflict, Modern

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