Science Quotes

Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

Only love with its science makes us so innocent.

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

A busy life is a wasted life.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.