Science Quotes

Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.