Science Quotes

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Law is the ultimate science.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

Science is not inherently good.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.