Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) English biologist.


Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) English biologist.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana (1863-1952)

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.
Pierre Emile Duclaux (1840-1904) French biochemist, bacteriologist.

Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English essayist, philosopher, statesman.

Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.
Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood (1897-1967) English chemist. Nobel prize 1956.

Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) U. S. physicist. Nobel prize 1944.

Science is not belief, but the will to find out.
Anon

Science is piecemeal revelation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1 (1809-94)

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Science is practical philosophy.
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician.

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith (1723-90)

Science is the literature of truth.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818-85)

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes (1817-78)

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)