Science Quotes

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

Science is the only true guide in life.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.