Science Quotes

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Science is the true theology.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.