Science Quotes

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Conscience is wiser than science.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

Economics is not an exact science.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.