Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.

What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time read more

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from read more

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.

While bright-eyed science watches round.

While bright-eyed science watches round.

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil
set off a tornado in Texas?

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith read more

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith in the
orderliness of the universe.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.