Science Quotes

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Science probes; it does not prove.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Education is the science of relations

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.