Science Quotes

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions and the power inside these atoms that we had the capability to unlock.

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

Science could not fill the hole in my soul.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.