Science Quotes

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Science leads you to killing people.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Geometry is the most complete science.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.