Science Quotes

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

I'm a huge science fiction fan...

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.

I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.