Purpose Of Science Quotes

“Here is a beautiful dream: A never-ending journey! The holy purpose of science is to realise this dream for all living beings!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Science is the most influential tool of progress in the world, not one among many, but most, yet no scientist had tried to use it as a primary tool for harmony. And I desired to accomplish precisely that. I didn’t want to popularize science, for there were and are already tons of scientists doing it. I wanted to use science in a way that would have direct humanitarian consequences in interhuman relationships.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Science is like a candle, it can light up a room or it can burn down a house - in the hands of the responsible scientist it lights up the world but in the hands of the empty scientist it'll burn the whole world to ashes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Alleviation of human suffering should be the direct outcome of science, not a collateral byproduct.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Ten average scientists with a strong sense of humanity can do more good to the world than a hundred brilliant scientists with weak humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Mon général,” Mathieu said quietly, “ever since Greek mythology, Prometheus, Sisyphus, and then Faust, and all the rest— not forgetting, of course, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and other fables— everything, including Oedipus and atom, everything, has always begun as a poetic license, as a . . . metaphor and then invariably it became a hard, down-to-earth reality. The whole purpose of science, indeed, seems to be a validation of metaphors. Sodom and Gomorrah, materialistic West and materialistic East, all the parables and fables . . . as if all the metaphors were pointing to some historical and scientific truth. Mankind told itself everything about itself almost from the start, but it never believed it. If it comes to perish one day, it will be through sheer disbelief . . .”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp