Science Quotes

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.

Science is about filling in the details.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.