Science Quotes

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

We are all star stuff.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.