Science Quotes

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Religion has always persecuted science.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.