Science Quotes

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

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.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

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

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Science is not always what scientists do.

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

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

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

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

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

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

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

I’m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.