Science Quotes

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

Nature is stronger than education.

Let the experiment be made.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

We don't need a president like a Trump who doesn't actually, George, doesn't even believe in climate change, let alone wants to do anything about it, rejecting science.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.