Science Quotes

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.