Science Quotes

"The body is not an organism; it is a body without organs, a pure multiplicity."

"Rationality is not about dominating nature but about understanding our place in it."

"Scientific knowledge is valuable but cannot determine how we should live."

"Machine, organism, and society are all forms of organized complexity."

"The cosmos is not ordered by a single logic but by multiple, intersecting logics."

"Science divorced from ethics becomes instrumental oppression with a white coat."

"Science is not the pursuit of truth but the creation of problems."

"Scientism—the belief that natural science is the only valid knowledge—represents a distortion of reason."

"Science is a marvellous instrument, but it is just an instrument."

"The social sciences have not yet come to terms with the fact that man is a political being."

"The universal pragmatics of language reveals deep structures in how we communicate and coordinate action."

"Scientific progress does not automatically lead to moral progress."

"The concept of human nature, if it exists at all, is far more diverse and contradictory than any unified theory allows."

"Enlightenment is the mastery of nature through the application of reason - yet it often becomes another form of domination."

"Science separated from philosophy becomes technique without wisdom."

"Nature exists for human understanding."

"Science seeks to understand necessity."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"The real progress of knowledge is to measure what we do not know."

"The law of cause and effect is the law of laws."

"All our knowledge rests on the foundation of experience."

"The sad truth is that the domination of nature leads inevitably to the domination of humans."

"The notion that science can answer all human questions is a modern superstition."

"The very notion of an objective social science is perhaps a contradiction in terms."

"Science must be systematic; isolated facts are meaningless without coherent principles."

"Science progresses by questioning, not by certainty."

"Everything that happens has a cause; nothing occurs by chance."

"The universe operates according to rational principles."

"The human body is composed of a great number of parts of diverse nature."

"There is nothing in the intellect that is not first in the senses."