Science Quotes

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Cycling is not rocket science.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Music is an experience, not a science.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.