Science Quotes

Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Spirituality is the science of the Soul.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.