Science Quotes

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.