Science Quotes

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

I've lost my faith in science.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

What is the use of a new-born child ?

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.