Etta James Quotes, Thoughts and Image
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
Certainty ends inquiry.
All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.
It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.