Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Science is the most reliable guide for civilization; rejecting it leads to ignorance and error.
- In plain terms
- Science guides civilization reliably.
- What can you take from it?
- Base decisions on scientific evidence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What limits exist for science in guiding society?
- How to balance science with values?
Another view
Science alone cannot address all moral or aesthetic questions.
More from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Religion is an issue of conscience. Everyone is free to conform to the commands of their conscience. We show respect for religion. We are not against a way of …
Permalink to quote #31 Sovereignty belongs to the nation by all means.
Permalink to quote #33 No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
Permalink to quote #30
Related quotes
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
Thomas V. BartholinThomas V. Bartholin quote #1 Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include …
P. D. OuspenskyP. D. Ouspensky quote #4 Do not block the way of inquiry.
Charles Sanders PeirceCharles Sanders Peirce quote #9