Science Quotes

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Universe consists of frozen light.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Hubris and science are incompatible.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Why don't you light that candle ?

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.