Famous quotes containing the words life and/or science:
“It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)