Quotes & Sayings About Disadvantages Of Science

One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn't continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion. — Joseph Campbell

Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state. — Paul Feyerabend

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress. — Henry David Thoreau

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied. — M. Beddow Bayly