Science Quotes

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.

Public sharing is an important part of science.

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle is cleverly constructed.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

Science is of value because it can produce something.

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves.

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.

Genius is nourished from within and without.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.