Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.[La sciétia è il capitano, e la pratica sono i soldati.]
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Science is magic that works.
Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
Science is eminently perfectible; and every new theory is soon routed by a newer. [La science est éminemment perfectible et que chaque théorie est incessamment détruite par une théorie nouvelle.]
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.[La ciencia es un cementerio de ideas muertas, aunque de ellas salga vida.]
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.