Science Quotes

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Observations always involve theory.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

History is as much an art as a science.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.