Science Quotes

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

Success is not a mystery. It is a science.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.