Science Quotes

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I don't believe in natural science.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

Science advances one funeral at a time.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.