Famous Quotes

"Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."

David Hume on Science

More quotes about Science

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by David Hume

• "This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."

• "Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."

• "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

• "Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."

• "Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."