Science Quotes

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.