Science Quotes

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

'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?

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.