Science Quotes

"Phenomenology discloses what science presupposes."

"Phenomenology transforms every science."

"Science does not think."

"Modern science calculates but does not think the ground."

"Science denotes a body of facts and principles which have been organized into a systematic form."

"It is to the great writers of science that we look for the exposition of the method of science."

"The scientific mind must be constantly engaged in the work of creation."

"The human sciences must be interpretive, not merely analytical."

"Science progresses by replacing vague notions with precise definitions and measurable quantities."

"Empirical science is the only avenue to truth about the natural world."

"Mathematics is syntax; the natural sciences are the semantics."

"The scientific attitude is one of humility - our theories are provisional and subject to revision."

"The scientific method is not infallible but it is the most reliable path to understanding."

"The positive sciences represent humanity's greatest intellectual achievement and must be our model."

"We must distinguish between questions science can answer and questions that merely seem profound."

"The feeling of mystical wonder at the world is the deepest root of all science."

"The only possibility of anything like a philosophy of biology can lie in the understanding of life itself."

"Man has to awaken to wonder—and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"The mind of man is not a thing to be studied apart, but as an integral factor in the natural world."

"The extraordinary success of modern science is due to the fact that science is run according to scientific principles."

"Philosophy ought to imitate the successful sciences in its methods."

"The method of authority may have worked well enough for the indefinite future, but the history of science shows that it does not satisfy."

"Phenomenology is a science of essences, not mere facts."

"Science without phenomenology is blind; phenomenology without science is empty."

"The transcendental method reveals the hidden structures that make experience possible."

"Science progresses by developing more refined methods of description and analysis."

"To understand society, we must understand the consciousness that sustains it."

"The lifeworld is the unquestioned ground of all scientific inquiry."

"The natural sciences presuppose but cannot explain the world of lived experience."

"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."