Science Quotes

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Je cherche à comprendre.

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

Metaphysics is a science.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

The science just hasn't been done.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

I don't believe in mathematics.