Science Quotes
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade
The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.
He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.
Don't blame you, " said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.
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Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, so he assumed that the Total Perspective Vortex was not fun.
...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changelessness is a change for the worse...
One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.
The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.
She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.
In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?
I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!
And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.