Science Quotes

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

Knowledge is the death of research.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.