Science Quotes

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.