Science Quotes

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Art can contradict Science.

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Order is heaven's first law.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.