science

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Logic is neither a science or an art, but a dodge.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and complexion: he embraced the old statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.