Science Quotes

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

The hand is where the mind meets the world.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

The man who walks with Henslow.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.