Science Quotes

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Science is organized knowledge.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Science is practical philosophy.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.