Science Quotes

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature!

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.