Science Quotes

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

And nature must obey necessity.