Science Quotes

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

The king was pregnant.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

A place without meaning is no place to be.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.