Science Quotes

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.

I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

Science is the Noah's Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel!

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.