Science Quotes

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

I'll teach you differences.

The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.

Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

For we are all sprung from earth and water

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.