Science Quotes

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

I don’t know the science behind climate change.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.