Science Quotes

We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Yoga is the art and science of living.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.