Science Quotes

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

No scientist thinks in formulae.

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

Science can only state what is, not what should be.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Stephenie Meyer + Science = wrong!

I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.