Science Quotes

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one person to another. There was no trace of a connection to drinking water.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.