Science Quotes

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

Science clears the fields on which technology can build.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.