Science Quotes

"Science is a method of understanding, not understanding itself"

"Photography is the shortest distance between observation and understanding."

"We have the technology to destroy the planet; now we must develop the wisdom to save it."

"The environment is not separate from the economy—it is the foundation of it."

"The environment is not optional; it is the stage upon which all life performs."

"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."

"The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television or radio, but the complexity of the land organism."

"Ecological science has wrought a change in the mental eye. It has enlarged the boundaries of the visual world."

"Evolution is happening to the land at the same time we are happening to it."

"Evolution will always remain pure speculation without fossil evidence to anchor it to fact."

"The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what it is talking about when it speaks of 'developing' a lake or a mountain."

"Oxygen is the commonest element in the biosphere, but carbon is the most indispensable."

"Medicine is not an art; it is a social activity."

"Science advances by destroying its own foundations."

"Science cannot answer the deepest questions about meaning and value."

"The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television or radio, but the complexity of the land organism."

"Ecological perception requires that we think in terms of systems, not objects."

"Science reduces the world to what can be measured."

"The colonized is elevated above his inferiors through technology and weaponry."

"Science is about asking better questions."

"Science is philosophy in action."

"Science progresses by systematically proving itself wrong."

"Science creates problems that only more science can solve."

"Science reveals not the nature of things but our questions about them."

"The body is not a unified entity but a collection of intensities"

"Consciousness is not the essence but an effect of relations"

"The body without organs is a plane of consistency"

"Science does not transcend ideology but is often its most sophisticated expression."

"Faith in science is just faith with better PR."

"Science is the systematic elevation of exception into rule."