Famous Quotes

"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."

W. H. Auden 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 W. H. Auden

• "Now is the age of anxiety."

• "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

• "'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

• "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

• "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."