Science Quotes

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

Science is not always what scientists do.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.