Science Quotes

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.

I think science is real.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.