Essay on the topic “The role of science in modern society”
The past century turned out to be a century of great scientific and technological progress for people. After all, imagine - a little over a hundred years ago, humanity had just discovered telephone communications and cinema. Quite recently, everyone was still accustomed to the fact that the telephone set is motionless, stands on a table and is connected by cable to the general city network. Cut the cable and neighboring cities will not be able to hear each other. And now intercontinental conversation on a mobile phone has become possible without any cord or wire.
Thus, the discoveries of science intervene in people’s lives, improving it, trying to make it more convenient. Issues are resolved at a distance, and these same distances are overcome in a few hours where a medieval horseman would have to ride for months.
Gradually, the discoveries of science reach all members of human society and unite them. After all, in Russian villages, for about thirty years after the advent of cinema and radio, people considered stories about this to be fiction: “I came from the city and spilled like a nightingale!”
Now science has developed for disabled people, who can hardly or cannot move at all, devices that give them the opportunity to work with a computer: to work as typesetters, designers, administrators, programmers, journalists... Imagine, just yesterday a person was called a “vegetable”, but today he is almost an independent member of society!
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of science for an individual little man- member of society. And therefore, people rely on scientists and expect scientific development and progress, not for them to invent bombs and guns - this is already a negative role of science when its achievements are aimed at violence and intimidation.
It is important for humanity to solve its urgent problems. Ordinary inhabitants of the Earth dream that doctors will learn to cure cancer, which claims many lives - after all, Europe defeated the plague and, thanks to vaccinations, got rid of smallpox! Once upon a time, these diseases were considered an incurable punishment from God; it was almost impossible to escape from them during epidemics.
It is important that new techniques become available to all people, and not just to patients of elite clinics. After all, skilled doctors reattach arms and legs lost during injuries, but this is not available in ordinary traumatology... People dream that using genetic medicine methods it will be possible to save people from severe hereditary diseases...
The development of science also means environmentally friendly production that does not pollute the air and water around it. Development of the solar panel industry, which will end the wars for oil and gas. Everyone has their own dreams and aspirations, and together they push science forward.
Aphorisms and quotes about science
2. “...Research into the structure of the world is one of the greatest and noblest problems that exist in nature...”
Galileo Galilei
3. “To maintain the purity of science is the first commandment of a scientist”
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
4. “Science raises the intellectual and moral level; science contributes to the spread and triumph of great ideas"
Louis Pasteur
5. “Master the entire breadth of human knowledge, without confining yourself to one narrow specialty - that’s the first thing I want to advise you...”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
6. “A scientist knows no greater pleasure than to work and be active. All other pleasures have only the meaning of relaxation for him.”
Ludwig Feuerbach
7. “I really like the violation of Newton’s fundamental law - the law of inertia at rest, turning it into inertia of motion”
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
8. “In science, every new point of view entails a revolution in its technical terms.”
Friedrich Engels
9. “Following the thoughts of a great man is the most interesting science”
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
10. “All scientific work consists of 99 percent failures, and maybe only one percent successes...”
Sergey Lvovich Sobolev
11. “What has so far been discovered by the sciences lies almost at the very surface of ordinary concepts. In order to penetrate into the depths and distances of nature, it is necessary to abstract both concepts and axioms from things in a more correct and careful way, and in general a better and more reliable work of the mind is necessary.”
Francis Bacon
12. “Science is an attempt to bring the chaotic diversity of our sensory experience into conformity with some unified system thinking"
Albert Einstein
13. “Scientific truths are always paradoxical when judged on the basis of everyday experience, which captures only the deceptive appearance of things.”
Karl Marx
14. “Science is mankind’s eternal striving for truth, and truth is achieved only through a long journey in the midst of inevitable errors and misconceptions”
15. “The main motive of my life is not to live life in vain, to advance humanity at least a little forward. That is why I was interested in what did not give me either bread or strength, but I hope that my work, maybe soon, or maybe in the distant future, will give me mountains of bread and an abyss of power.”
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
16. “In scientific work one cannot make confident predictions about the future, since obstacles always arise that can only be overcome with the emergence of new ideas.”
Niels Bohr
17. “...There is nothing more wonderful human brain, there is nothing more amazing than the process of thinking, nothing more precious than the results scientific research…»
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
18. “The ideals that illuminated my path and gave me courage and courage were kindness, beauty and truth. Without a sense of solidarity with those who share my convictions, without the pursuit of the ever-elusive objective in art and science, life would seem absolutely empty to me.”
Albert Einstein
19. “Science is beneficial only when we accept it not only with our minds, but also with our hearts”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
20. “...In the history of human thinking, the most fruitful directions were those where two different ways of thinking collided”
Werner Heisenberg
21. “...Science moves in spurts, depending on the successes achieved by the methodology. With each step of the methodology forward, we seem to rise a step higher, from which a wider horizon opens up to us, with previously invisible objects.”
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
22. “Happiness is given only to those who know. The more a person knows, the more sharply, the more powerfully he sees the poetry of the earth where a person with meager knowledge will never find it.”
23. “Students and followers constitute the mighty strength and priceless wealth of a scientist. A scientist without students, a lone scientist, is, from my point of view, a pitiful and, I would say, ugly phenomenon, for the meaning of a scientist’s life should lie not only in developing new theoretical values, but also in creating a worthy successor, capable of broader and deeper develop, improve the ideas of their teachers and consolidate them in practice"
Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin
24. “...The work of a scientist is the heritage of all humanity, and science is the area of greatest selflessness. Scientists should be valued precisely as the most productive and precious energy of the people, and therefore it is necessary to create conditions for them under which the growth of this energy would be facilitated in every possible way.”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
25. “I keep the subject of my research constantly in mind and wait patiently until the first glimmer gradually turns into full and brilliant light.”
Isaac Newton
26. “The problem is solved not by the one who is content with partial success, but by the scientist who achieves a full result”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
27. “Thought, completely free and as such - left to itself, cannot produce anything, because the soul of science, i.e. its laws, hypotheses and theories need a body, material content for the organism of science to emerge. Dead facts alone, like free speculations alone, do not constitute a science.”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
28. “...In science there are architects who conceive brilliant plans, and workers who carry out those of them that turn out to be feasible. To each his own business, but even the most humble figure has a sacred duty to point out and correct the mistake of the brilliant architect.”
Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
29. "From living contemplation to abstract thinking and from it to practice - this is the dialectical path of cognition of truth, cognition of objective reality"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
30. “What is known to most people today was the privilege of only a few scientists fifty years ago; and this process will continue until the end, since scientific knowledge is one of the moments of collective adaptation of thinking to facts"
Paul Langevin
31. ...Science moves forward in proportion to the mass of knowledge inherited from the previous generation, therefore, under the most ordinary conditions, it ... grows exponentially"
Friedrich Engels
32. “A person is now dealing with such problems that he is breathtaking and dizzy. However, until you feel a little dizzy, you will not be able to understand their essence. Problems are more important than solutions. Solutions may become outdated, but problems remain."
Niels Bohr
33. “Every science is applied logic”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
34. “Read not to contradict and refute; not to be taken on faith; and not to find a subject for conversation; but to think and reason"
Francis Bacon
35. “Unlike other architects, science not only draws castles in the air, but also erects individual residential floors of a building before laying its foundation.”
Karl Marx
36. “...It is likely that 95% of original scientific papers are written by less than 5% of professional scientists, but most of them would not have been written at all if the remaining 95% of scientists had not contributed sufficiently to the creation of a common high level science"
Norbert Wiener
37. “You can only discover something truly new if you are ready to decisive place leave the foundations on which previous science rested and jump, to a certain extent, into the void.”
Werner Heisenberg
38. “I am one of those who are convinced of the great beauty of science. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a specialist. It is also a child facing natural phenomena that amaze him like fairy tale. We must be able to tell others about these feelings. We should not put up with the opinion that all scientific progress comes down to mechanisms, machines, gears, although they are also beautiful in themselves.”
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
39. “The share of science in a country is determined not only by the funds allocated from the state budget, the number of research institutes, but, above all, by the outlook of scientists, the height of their scientific flight.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
40. “Just as eating food without pleasure turns into boring eating, so studying science without passion clogs the memory, which becomes unable to assimilate what it absorbs.”
Leonardo da Vinci
41. “In science, it is often not enough to solve some problem or group of problems. After this, you need to take a closer look at these tasks and rethink what problems you solved. Often, when we solve one problem, we automatically find the answer to another question that we had never thought about before.”
Norbert Wiener
42. “...A true scientist must be not just impartial, but the most biased critic of what is most dear to him - his creative work, to which he devoted many days and nights of labor, joy, and inspiration. He must be, as it were, his own enemy - this is both the tragedy and the greatness of the scientist."
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
43. “Only a mind capable of tracing the inextricable connection between seemingly incompatible phenomena can create true values.”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
44. “Science is the highest mind of humanity, it is the sun that man created from his own flesh and blood, created and lit in front of him in order to illuminate the darkness of his difficult life, in order to find a way out of it to freedom, justice, beauty”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
45. “The true and legitimate goal of all sciences is to endow human life with new inventions and riches” “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority”
Francis Bacon
46. “Every scientific work, every discovery, every invention is universal labor. It is determined partly by the cooperation of contemporaries, partly by the use of the labor of predecessors.”
Karl Marx
47. “In science we must look for ideas. No idea, no science. Knowledge of facts is precious only because ideas are hidden in facts: facts without ideas are rubbish for the head and memory.”
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
48. “Experience first benefits science, then harms it, since it reveals both the law and the exception. The average between them does not give the true one.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
49. “Philosophers have only explained the world in various ways, but the point is to change it.”
Karl Marx
50. “One should doubt experimental work until the facts force one to abandon all doubt.”
Louis Pasteur
51. “If you take away a person’s ability to dream, then one of the most powerful motivations that gives rise to culture, art, science and the desire to fight for a wonderful future disappears.”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
52. “...We value hard laboratory work above all else, as a type of work in general full of poetic charm.”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
53. “Only science teaches how to obtain truth from its only primary source - from reality”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
54. “...In any scientific field - both in the field of nature and in the field of history - we must proceed from the facts given to us... we cannot construct connections and introduce them into facts, but we must extract them from the facts and, having found them, prove them as far as possible , empirically"
Friedrich Engels
55. “Two human aspirations - for Knowledge and Power - truly coincide in one and the same thing”
Francis Bacon
56. “The first place in my life was and is occupied by scientific research, scientific work, free scientific thought and the creative search for truth by the individual"
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
57. “...For the development of science, it is required in any given era not only that people think in general, but that they concentrate their thoughts on that part of the vast field of science that is in given time requires development"
James Maxwell
58. “...To require men to renounce their own judgments and submit to the judgments of others, and to appoint persons wholly ignorant of science or art as judges over learned men, giving them the power to deal with the latter as they please, are such innovations as are capable of leading to destroy the republic and destroy the state"
Galileo Galilei
59. “Just as speech is composed from a series of words, and certain images from a collection of shadows, so from the mass of comprehended facts, consisting of connections with each other, knowledge is born in its sublime, better sense.”
60. "There is no weapon more powerful than knowledge"
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
61. “...The beauty and greatness of the human mind lies in this: without rest, without respite, without knowing fatigue, without fear of danger, to eternally seek the truth that always eludes it.”
Anatole France
62. “The progress of science is determined by the works of its scientists and the value of their discoveries”
Louis Pasteur
63. “My followers must precede me, contradict me, even destroy my work, while at the same time continuing it. Only from such consistently destroyed work is progress created.”
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
64. “Genius is the patience of thought concentrated in a certain direction”
Isaac Newton
65. “...The task of science is to reduce the visible movement that only appears in the phenomenon to real internal movement...”
Karl Marx
66. “A real scientist should not be afraid that individual, most talented students will discover new natural phenomena, develop new methods and surpass their teacher in a number of their scientific achievements... We should be proud of such students, since without this no progress can take place in science, neither in technology, nor in art, nor in literature"
Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin
67. “Nothing can be higher than the joy that the study of nature gives us. Its secrets are incomprehensibly deep; however, we, people, are given the opportunity to penetrate them further and further with our gaze.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
68. “You cannot draw a line between big and small, because both are equally important for the whole”
Niels Bohr
69. “The acquisition of any knowledge is always useful for the mind, for it can subsequently reject the useless and preserve the good. After all, not a single thing can be loved or hated unless you first know it.”
Leonardo da Vinci
70. “The true subject of teaching is the preparation of a man to be a man.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
71. “Science is not at all a collection of laws, a collection of unrelated facts. It is a creation of the human mind with its freely invented ideas and concepts."
Albert Einstein
72. “Science was born from the experience and thought of mankind; it is a free force”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
73. “...In science, more than in any other institution of mankind, it is necessary to study the past in order to understand the present and dominate nature in the future”
John Bernal
74. “For people of a heroic spirit, everything turns into good, and they know how to use captivity as the fruit of great freedom, and sometimes turn defeat into a great victory!”
Giordano Bruno
75. “Scientific activity is only fruitful when it constitutes the content of life, its goal”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
76. “Science is a living organism that develops truth”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
77. “Science is not a subject of pure thinking, but a subject of thinking constantly involved in practice and constantly reinforced by practice. This is why science cannot be studied in isolation from technology.”
John Bernal
78. “What do the most refined material pleasures mean in comparison with that quiet, calm, but sublime feeling that fills the soul of everyone who truly loves his science! My gratitude to the science I have chosen will not dry up until the end of my life; I love my science as only a son can love a tender mother; What would the years I spent have been like if they had not contained those sweet moments and hours that my studies in science gave me?
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
79. “We must never forget that every advance in our knowledge raises more problems than it solves, and that in this field every new land discovered suggests the existence of vast continents as yet unknown to us.”
Louis de Broglie
80. “Noticing mistakes doesn’t cost much; to give something better is what befits a worthy person.”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
81. “Theory transforms new facts into new truths and new principles, striving to build an increasingly complete, accurate, harmonious and useful picture of the world”
Paul Langevin
82. “...Science is the basis of all progress that makes life easier for mankind and reduces its suffering”
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
83. “...What a happy old age can a scientist achieve if his passion for science does not fade, if he manages to win the love and respect of his students, if from his very first steps only the torch of scientific truth illuminates his path, if the false lamps of personal interests and ambition , arrogance, and envy do not lead him astray from the path of serving science, and through it, the people.”
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
84. “Inspiration is the disposition of the soul towards the most lively acceptance of impressions and the understanding of concepts, and, consequently, the explanation of them. Inspiration is needed in geometry, as in poetry."
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
85. "Conditions experimental work V modern sciences make collective work useful and even necessary...The most decisive advances of science in the future, just as they were in the past, will be the result of individual efforts, because the insight of genius, even in its most modest form, is always essentially individual.”
Louis de Broglie
86. “...Science made me love the truth, science served to develop in me the holy idea of duty and obligation to such an extent that I subordinated my very feelings to this idea and am ready to die in cold blood when the duty imposed on me by science demands it.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
87. "The purpose scientific knowledge the mind must be directed in such a way that it makes strong and true judgments about all objects encountered.”
Rene Descartes
88. “The true path, which leads in a long but sure way to a theoretical understanding of complex phenomena, consists in experience and measurement of individual details of a complex phenomenon.”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
89. “Sciences only benefit if they use methods and facts borrowed from each other. Each such contact of sciences is always a step forward. True, at the moment when there is a movement forward, prepared by another, related science, there are always backward people who come forward with a demand to stop violating the immutable rules established by their science.”
Louis Pasteur
90. “The significance of research often lies not so much in the fact that it cuts a completely new road through the thick of the forest, but also in the fact that it makes the clearing passable and forces everyone to move along a new path.”
Alexander Evgenievich Fersman
91. “All science is nothing more than an improvement of everyday thinking”
Albert Einstein
92. “When a person wants to find out, he explores; when he wants to hide from the worries of life, he invents.”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
93. “Many, having read my works, will not think about being convinced of the truth of what I said, but only about how to find ways to refute my arguments, right or wrong.”
Galileo Galilei
94. “Experience is not mistaken, only your judgments are mistaken, which expect from it what it is unable to give.”
Leonardo da Vinci
95. “Only when there is an understanding of phenomena, a generalization, a theory, when the laws governing phenomena are more and more comprehended, only then does true human knowledge begin, science arises”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
96. “To review the progress of science as a whole, it is useful to compare modern problems science with the problems of a previous era and explore the specific changes that a particular important problem has undergone over the course of decades or even centuries.”
Werner Heisenberg
97. “Already in his early youth, a scientist must come to terms with the idea that he is destined to know very little about the world around him.”
Anatole France
98. “Art lives in fiction, science realizes fiction... It’s time to learn the simplest and most obvious truth created by work: the further, the more easily modern technology transforms fiction and conjecture, fantasies and hypotheses into reality, arming man in his struggle for life.”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
99. “Science wins when its wings are unfettered by imagination”
Michael Faraday
100. “...In science it is customary to prove what is asserted”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
101. “A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood; otherwise he would not have thought about it.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
102. “There is no broad highway in science, and only he can reach its shining peaks who, without fear of fatigue, climbs its rocky paths.”
Karl Marx
103. “No one was more mistaken in his predictions than the prophets of the limitations of human knowledge”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
104. “We cannot expect favors from nature; It’s our task to take them from her.”
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
105. "Perhaps we owe more to science than to any other species human activity, the emergence of a sense of the need for collective efforts"
Frederic Joliot-Curie
106. “Hypotheses are scaffolding that is erected in front of a building and taken down when the building is finished; they are necessary for the employee; he should not just mistake the scaffolding for a building.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
107. “I can’t help but think that science is already close to implementing a project that will bring either unprecedented misfortune or unprecedented benefit to humanity.”
Niels Bohr
108. “Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals, over time, new and deeper difficulties.”
Albert Einstein
109. “In order to lead quite correctly scientific work through systematic experimentation and precise demonstration, the art of strategy is required."
James Maxwell
110. “Only those who can rise above themselves are able to understand the greatness of science”
Ludwig Feuerbach
111. “The basis of all scientific work is the belief that the world is an orderly and knowable entity.”
Albert Einstein
112. “...There is no fantasy that the will and mind of people could not turn into reality”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
113. “Man and science are two concave mirrors, eternally reflecting each other”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
114. “...Science is increasingly influencing politics, primarily economics. And if sharp comparisons are possible, I would say the following: the relationship between science and politics is the same as between the chief of staff and the commander. Probably, in the life of the future society it is precisely by this principle that the place of science will be determined.”
Sergey Lvovich Sobolev
The harm and benefits of science.
I am writing because I recently had another conversation with a guy who is obsessed with the idea that all the troubles come from science and education in general. Last time he was “Stalled” about the nuclear bombing of Japan. Before that, he got stuck in electricity, moreover, in the aspect of using it for executions, and before that, in gunpowder.
So here's my opinion on the matter.
About the bomb on Hiroshima. The United States then wanted, as I understand after reading the question from the available documents, to do several things. First, to put an end to Japan’s participation in the war, and in such a way as to break and horrify. Otherwise, the Japanese would have been “extinguished” for a long time, like bulls in a dry forest (I mean partisans). Second, “shake your muscles” around the world to demonstrate not only the presence of weapons, but also the determination to use them. In this way they also cooled down a lot of hotheads.
Here’s an example: chemical weapons have been known since the First World War, but were almost never used in the Second (I’m not saying that this is bad, but I’m stating the fact that they were practically never used as a weapon).
That is, the United States was then solving specific problems facing it in terms of waging war. And the decision was made by a narrow group of people, and not by universal vote.
And when improvement was meant, it was necessary to clarify: improvement for whom. Social relativism is clearly at work here, that is, what is happening cannot be assessed in general (absolutely in the sense), but only from the point of view of a specific observer. What is good for the US at that moment is bad for Japan.
About the improvement or deterioration of life by scientific achievements. The immediate question is: for whom? When the world consists of opposing layers and classes, ideological and religious groups, human ideals are generally a far-fetched thing and depend on momentary culture.
There are survivors and those who did not survive. The second ones simply no longer exist, and they will not have offspring, and their genes are lost. And if those who did not survive were guided by some morality that was more progressive from the point of view of universal human ideals, then this was not the correct morality from the point of view of survival. And she disappeared along with her carriers. If it hasn’t disappeared, it means that morality is stable. This is nature, you either survive in it or you don’t.
And there is no concept of right in the world, that is, whether you have the right to do something or not. This concept may arise in a specific civilization. And then change with her.
But there is NO harm from science AT ALL, like from a brick, a knife and paper. Harm or good - in the method of use. Knowledge simply gives you more opportunities to use it in any direction.
I don’t argue that it’s good to be good, bad to be bad, and so on. But reasoning like
“If Scientific progress had developed in proportion to Spiritual progress, then humanity would not even have electricity and would travel on horses, donkeys and camels, as it was 2000 years ago.
And how can you tell me it would be worse than what we have now?
In my opinion, it would be much better!"
It’s so Blah blah blah as if you lived in a society of our type and that type and you can compare.
And this is “Well, tell me, what the hell does it matter whether the earth stands on three pillars or revolves around the sun? Is it flat or round? If the answers to all these questions require an ever-accelerating Scientific Progress- after each such simple question, 10 more complex ones arise, and as a result, without answering all the questions, humanity destroys itself - something like this Scientific Development there is suicide. It would be different if, along with every very small Scientific Achievement, the Spiritual Achievement would also occur, which would bring the Scientific and Spiritual into the necessary balance every time. Then humanity - simultaneously with the development of Science - would learn how to live with this development, and how to maintain harmony with Nature and with ourselves.
Paradoxical conclusion: Every scientific discovery what benefits man as an individual harms humanity as a whole."
In general, he smiled, reminding political officers Soviet army and modern televangelists.
Naturally, the expansion of the area of the known expands its boundaries, increasing contact with the unknown, and this makes me happy. Knowledge is endless. If you want simple and clear answers, then you should go to religion, and if you want not to strain at all, then something like Pastafarianism, the main thing is to sincerely believe :)
“It would be different if, along with every very small Scientific Achievement, there would also be a Spiritual Achievement, which would bring the Scientific and Spiritual into the necessary balance every time.” - an example to the studio please, what exactly did you mean? Take a chain of discoveries, for example in the field of electricity, for example from 1900 to 1930, and compare each with, in your opinion, a corresponding Spiritual Achievement. It will be interesting to see the list.
Only science will change the world. Science in in a broad sense: both how to split an atom and how to educate people. And adults too. N. M. Amosov
Just as those who eat a lot are not healthier than those who eat only the essentials, so the true scientists are not those who read a lot, but those who read what is useful. Aristippus
He who moves forward in science, but lags behind in morality, goes backward rather than forward. Aristotle
The task of scientists is not only to develop scientific research, but also to fight for its use for the benefit of society, for the benefit of all people of the world. I. I. Artobolevsky
A true scientist is a dreamer, and whoever is not one calls himself a practitioner. O. Balzac
The key to all science is the question mark. O. Balzac
A student will never surpass a teacher if he sees him as a model and not a rival. V. G. Belinsky
Science is not a subject of pure thinking, but a subject of thinking constantly involved in practice and constantly reinforced by practice. This is why science cannot be studied in isolation from technology. D. Bernal
When a fact comes across that contradicts the prevailing theory, you need to recognize the fact and reject the theory, even if it is supported by big names and accepted by everyone. K. Bernard
Another scientist is like a bank teller: he has the keys to great wealth, but this wealth does not belong to him. L. Burnet
The main duty of a scientist is not to try to prove the infallibility of his opinions, but to be always ready to abandon any view that seems unproven, any experience that turns out to be erroneous. P. Berthelot
Science is the best way to make the human spirit heroic. D. Bruno
The limits of science are like the horizon: the closer one approaches them, the more they move away. P. Buast
Science is an ocean open to both boat and frigate. One transports gold bars along it, the other fishes for herring in it. E. Bulwer-Lytton
Morality must be polar star science. S. Bouffler
The true and legitimate goal of all sciences is to endow human life with new inventions and riches. F. Bacon
Science is nothing more than a reflection of reality. F. Bacon
Facts in science are the same as experience in public life. J. Buffon
When science reaches any peak, it opens up a vast prospect of a further path to new heights, new roads open up along which science will go further. S. I. Vavilov
Science has its own specific logic of development, which is very important to take into account. Science must always work in reserve, for future use, and only under this condition will it be in natural conditions. S. I. Vavilov
You can't be a real mathematician without being a little poet. K. Weierstrass
A scientific hypothesis always goes beyond the facts that served as the basis for its construction. V. I. Vernadsky
The scientific worldview, imbued with natural science and mathematics, is greatest power not only the present, but also the future. V. I. Vernadsky
One minute is enough to be surprised; It takes many years to make an amazing thing. K. Helvetius
In science there is no other way to acquire than by the sweat of your brow; neither impulses, nor fantasies, nor aspirations with all your heart replace work. A. I. Herzen
Science is power; it reveals the relationships of things, their laws and interactions. A. I. Herzen
Science requires the whole person, without ulterior motives, with a willingness to give everything and, as a reward, to receive the heavy cross of sober knowledge. A. I. Herzen
There are no difficult sciences, there are only difficult expositions. A. I. Herzen
We cannot have science disconnected from life: it is contrary to our character. A. I. Herzen
Hypotheses are scaffolding that is erected in front of a building and taken down when the building is finished; they are necessary for the employee; he should not just mistake the scaffolding for a building. I. Goethe
In order for any science to move forward, so that its expansion becomes more perfect, hypotheses are necessary in the same way as evidence from experience and observation. I. Goethe
A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood. I. Goethe
What is in the air and what time requires can arise simultaneously in a hundred heads without any borrowing. I. Goethe
In science you need to believe and doubt at the same time. L. Girshfeld
The right of a scientist is freedom, and his duty is truthfulness. L. Girshfeld
Science is becoming the nervous system of our era. M. Gorky
Labor and science - there is nothing on earth higher than these two forces. M. Gorky
The work of a scientist is the heritage of all humanity, and science is the area of greatest selflessness. M. Gorky
People have no force more powerful and victorious than science. M. Gorky
True science knows neither likes nor dislikes: its only goal is truth. W. Grove
Moving forward, science constantly crosses itself out. V. Hugo
Science consists in such a grouping of facts that allows one to derive general laws or conclusions based on them. C. Darwin
Usually, not those who know a lot, but those who know little, always declare more confidently that this or that problem will never be solved by science. C. Darwin
The aim of scientific pursuits should be to direct the mind in such a way that it makes sound and true judgments about all objects encountered. R. Descartes
Nature is the best and most objective teacher when solving the most difficult questions of science. V. V. Dokuchaev
Every great success of science has its source in the great audacity of the imagination. D. Dewey
In any profession, love for it is one of the conditions for success, but this is especially true for research work. I. Joliot-Curie
Perhaps we owe more to science than to any other kind of human activity for the emergence of a sense of the need for collective effort. F. Joliot-Curie
Science is necessary for the people. A country that does not develop it inevitably turns into a colony. F. Joliot-Curie
Science opens up great prospects for those who serve it. F. Joliot-Curie
The teaching has no right to consider itself a small group of chosen ones, alien to the tasks of practical life. Being members great family workers, they should be concerned about how their discoveries are used. They want science to be put at the service of the people. F. Joliot-Curie
The time will come when science will outstrip imagination. Jules Verne
The great poetry of our century is a science with the amazing flowering of its discoveries, its conquest of matter, inspiring man to increase his activity tenfold. E. Zola
Honesty in science is inseparable from honesty in life, and whoever sees one cash cow for himself in science is not an honest servant, but an industrialist who turns the bright name of science into a commercial business. F. N. Inozemtsev
The beginning of science is reason, the beginning of reason is patience. E. Kapiev
We can find a thousand scientists, while we come across one sage. F. Klinger
Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly. V. O. Klyuchevsky
Abuse scientific language turns into a science of words what should be a science of facts. J. Condorcet
There are no barriers to human thought. S. P. Korolev
Science is a huge treasury of knowledge accumulated by humanity. N. K. Krupskaya
Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries. I. V. Kurchatov
Science consists of knowledge logically combined into a system and imbued with an idea. M. S. Kutorga
The system of sciences must be considered as a system of nature: everything in it is infinite and everything is necessary. J. Cuvier
A scientist devoid of imagination can become a good walking library and a living reference book - he assimilates, not creates. F. Yu. Levinson-Lessing
We need science to really become part of our flesh and blood, to turn into an integral element of everyday life in a completely and real way. V. I. Lenin
Cooperation between representatives of science and workers - only such cooperation will be able to destroy all the oppression of poverty, disease, and dirt. And it will be done. No dark force can resist the union of representatives of science, the proletariat and technology. V. I. Lenin
There is no certainty in sciences where none of the mathematical sciences, and in that it has no connection with mathematics. Leonardo da Vinci
The source of all science is experience. Every experience is a thought, which with its help becomes accessible to the senses. Yu. Liebig
Reason and imagination are equally necessary for our knowledge and have equal rights in science. Yu. Liebig
Science cannot be wrong about things, it can only be wrong about understanding things. V. Liebknecht
Science cannot move forward in a cage of bureaucracy. K. Liebknecht
The word “scientist” sometimes contains only the concept that a person has been taught a lot, but not that he himself has learned something. G. Lichtenberg
Where previously there were the boundaries of science, there is now its center. G. Lichtenberg
A scientist must follow untrodden paths, despite obstacles. N. I. Lobachevsky
For the general benefit, and especially for the establishment of science in the Fatherland, I do not want to rebel against my own father for sin. M. V. Lomonosov
Science is a clear knowledge of the truth, the enlightenment of the mind, the immaculate joy of life, the praise of youth, the support of old age, the builder of cities and regiments, the fortress of success in misfortune, the adornment in happiness, everywhere a faithful and constant companion. M. V. Lomonosov
I value one experience higher than a thousand opinions born only of imagination. M. V. Lomonosov
There is no wide highway in science, and only those who, without fear of fatigue, climb its rocky paths can reach its shining peaks. K. Marx
Every scientific work, every discovery, every invention is universal labor. It is determined partly by the cooperation of contemporaries, partly by the use of the labor of predecessors. K. Marx
Every beginning is difficult - this truth is true for every science. K. Marx
Science is not at all a selfish pleasure. Those lucky ones who can devote themselves to scientific tasks should themselves be the first to give their knowledge to the service of humanity. K. Marx
Scientific truths are always paradoxical when judged on the basis of everyday experience, which captures only the deceptive appearance of things. K. Marx
The production process can be turned into a technological application of science. K. Marx
The development of science, this ideal and at the same time practical wealth, is only one of the sides, one of the forms in which the development of human productive forces appears, that is, the development of wealth. K. Marx
A teacher, if he does not want to lower his level himself, should never interrupt his active participation in public life and should not sit forever locked up in his office or in his laboratory, like a rat that got into cheese, without interfering with life, social and political struggle of his contemporaries. K. Marx
Hypotheses make scientific work easier and correct - the search for truth, like a farmer's plow, makes it easier to grow useful plants. D. I. Mendeleev
It is impossible to foresee the boundaries of scientific knowledge and prediction. D. I. Mendeleev
Science is a common property, and therefore justice requires not giving the greatest scientific glory to the one who was the first to express a known truth, but to the one who managed to convince others of it, showed its reliability and made it applicable in science. D. I. Mendeleev
The role of the sciences is service; they constitute a means to achieve the good. D. I. Mendeleev
Striving to know the infinite, science itself has no end and, being universal, in reality inevitably acquires a national character. D. I. Mendeleev
A characteristic feature of science is precisely that it requires strong activity. I. I. Mechnikov
Man, with the help of science, is able to correct the imperfections of his nature. I. I. Mechnikov
True scholars are like ears of corn in a field. While the ear is empty, it grows cheerfully and proudly raises its head; but when he swells, fills with grain and ripens, he is imbued with humility and lowers his head. M. Montaigne
Book learning is an ornament, not a foundation. M. Montaigne
To those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm. M. Montaigne
There is no science for science, there is no art for art - they all exist for society, for the ennoblement, for the elevation of man, for his enrichment with knowledge and the material comforts of life. N. A. Nekrasov
If I saw further than others, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. I. Newton
My faith is the belief that the progress of science will bring happiness to humanity. I. P. Pavlov
Science demands from a person his whole life. And if you had two lives, then they would not be enough for you. Science requires great effort and great passion from a person. I. P. Pavlov
The field of research in all sciences is limitless. B. Pascal
Accidental discoveries are made only by prepared minds. B. Pascal
The cult of science in the highest sense of the word is perhaps even more necessary for the moral than for the material prosperity of a nation. Science raises the intellectual and moral level; Science promotes the spread and triumph of great ideas. L. Pasteur
Science must be the most sublime embodiment of the fatherland, for of all nations the first will always be the one that is ahead of others in the field of thought and mental activity. L. Pasteur
The progress of science is determined by the works of its scientists and the value of their discoveries. L. Pasteur
Where the spirit of science reigns, great things are accomplished with small means. N. I. Pirogov
A one-sided specialist is either a crude empiricist or a scientific charlatan. N. I. Pirogov
The greatness and dignity of science lies solely in the benefits it brings to people, increasing the productivity of their labor and strengthening the natural powers of their minds. D. I. Pisarev
There is a very close, inextricable connection between science and life, and for neither of them is in the least humiliating connection: the more science serves life, the more life enriches science. G. V. Plekhanov
Where science stands high, man stands high. A. I. Polezhaev
Science is built from facts, just as a house is built from bricks; however, a pile of facts is not science, just as a pile of bricks is not a house. A. Poincare
Science is a collective creation and cannot be anything else; it is like a monumental structure that takes centuries to build, and where everyone must bring a stone, and this stone often costs him his whole life. A. Poincare
Freedom is for science what air is for a living being. A. Poincare
The dignity of art and the dignity of science lie in selfless service for the benefit of people. D. Ruskin
The plaids of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifice, not material gain. R. Rolland
Modern great scientists are true poets. R. Rolland
People who know how to act fruitfully, even without diplomas, should be rated a thousand times higher than people who are inactive but have diplomas. N. A. Rubakin
Science is constant recognition, not only discovery, but discovery. N. A. Rubakin
Two people worked fruitlessly and tried to no avail: the one who accumulated wealth and did not use it, and the one who studied the sciences, but did not apply them. Saadi
A scientist without work is a tree without fruit. Saadi
Science is the basis of all progress that makes life easier for mankind and reduces its suffering. M. Skłodowska-Curie
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have kind heart? He uses all his knowledge for evil. G. S. Skovoroda
A scientist must be absolutely honest in everything. The slightest deviation from this quality is a grave crime. K. I. Scriabin
Science is organized knowledge. G. Spencer
The generally accepted opinion that science and poetry are two opposites is a big misconception. On the contrary, science reveals to us a whole world of poetry. People who have devoted themselves to scientific research constantly prove to us that they not only perceive the poetry of the subjects they study in the same way as other people, but even more vividly than they do. G. Spencer
The job of a scientist is to walk closely with his people, to raise them in an imperceptibly winding spiral to the difficult steep slopes of truth. V. V. Stasov
Selected people engaged in science must look at knowledge as a treasure entrusted to them, constituting the property of the entire people. K. A. Timiryazev
Science is the best, strongest, brightest support in life, no matter what its vicissitudes. K. A. Timiryazev
With the complete elimination of hypothesis, that is, guiding thought, science would turn into a pile of bare facts. K. A. Timiryazev
Only science teaches how to obtain truth from its only primary source - from reality. K. A. Timiryazev
The business of science is to serve people. L. N. Tolstoy
Scientific and artistic activity in its true sense is only fruitful when it does not know rights, but only knows responsibilities. L. N. Tolstoy
The task of science should be to know what should be, not what is. L. N. Tolstoy
Science and art are as necessary for people as food, drink, and clothing, even more necessary.
Recognition can be recognized. and prove only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace and well-being in order to devote himself to his calling. L. N. Tolstoy
The goal of scientific thinking is to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. A. Whitehead
In the sciences, the most reliable help is your own eyes and reflection. J. Fabre
Science wins when its wings are unfettered by imagination. M. Faraday
Discoveries are born where the teacher’s knowledge ends and the student’s new knowledge begins.
A true scientist cannot be modest: the more he has done, the more clearly he sees how much remains to be done. A. France
To neglect the opportunity to use scientific data in public life means to belittle the importance of science. Science helps us in the fight against fanaticism in all its manifestations; it helps us to create our own ideal of justice, without borrowing anything from erroneous systems and barbaric traditions. A. France
Scientists very often differ from normal mortals in their ability to admire verbose and complex errors. A. France
Already in his early youth, a scientist must come to terms with the idea that he is destined to know very little about the world around him. A. France
He who flaunts erudition or learning has neither one nor the other. E. Hemingway
Science has an extremely tangible, so to speak, bread-and-butter importance. K. E. Tsiolkovsky
One of the greatest disasters of civilization is the learned fool. K. Chapek
Science contains the fruits of the experience and reflection of the human race, and most importantly On the basis of science, concepts are improved, and then the morals and lives of people. B. Shaw
A bad scientist is one who has read about everything in the world and only remembered what he read. G. Shaw
There is always an element of poetry in scientific thinking. Real science And real music require a homogeneous thought process. A. Einstein
Science is the tireless centuries-old work of thought: to bring together through a system all the knowable phenomena of our world. A. Einstein
Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions, every development reveals, over time, new and deeper difficulties.
