Science Quotes

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

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.

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.

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

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.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

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.

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

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

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.

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.

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

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .