“The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1940s, The World As I See It (1949)
“Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.”
Héger and Lefébure, close friends of Solvay's, quoted by [Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999, 3-764-35705-3]
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“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
“One man's vulgarity is another's lyric.”
John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971) American judge and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1899-1971)
Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 52.
“Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Essays and Studies (1875), p. 162.
William Crookes (1832–1919) British chemist and physicist
Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
Context: It has been said that "Nothing worth the proving can be proved, nor yet disproved." True though this may have been in the past, it is true no longer. The science of our century has forged weapons of observation and analysis by which the veriest tyro may profit. Science has trained and fashioned the average mind into habits of exactitude and disciplined perception, and in so doing has fortified itself for tasks higher, wider, and incomparably more wonderful than even the wisest among our ancestors imagined. Like the souls in Plato's myth that follow the chariot of Zeus, it has ascended to a point of vision far above the earth. It is henceforth open to science to transcend all we now think we know of matter and to gain new glimpses of a profounder scheme of Cosmic law.
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Alan Chalmers book What Is This Thing Called Science?
Source: What Is This Thing Called Science? (Third Edition; 1999), Chapter 3, Experiment, p. 27.