Science Quotes

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

We need a new political science for a new world.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Science grows and Beauty dwindles.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.