Science Quotes

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Science demands patience.

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.

Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.