Science Quotes

Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

No, Carolyn, you can’t petition PETA to get a waiver from dissecting the frog. The frog’s already dead. It donated itself to science. Don’t let its sacrifice be in vain. -Brandon

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

The outgroup is rocks.

Biogeography typically trumps taxonomy and anticipates molecular phylogeny

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.

Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind.....ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Time travel..will never be impossible forever.

I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

You daughter is prudish?” There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter’s face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Scientists are those who change facts

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time.

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.

In space you don't stop.

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

Only if you follow the realism of science rather than the Hollywood fantasy of romance, will you achieve True Love

Beware of finding what you're lookin

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.

Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.