Science Quotes

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

And what is impossible to science?

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

Cancer research is a growth industry.

I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

The best way to learn to swim is to dive.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Science is our century's art.

We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.