Science Quotes

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Science belongs to no one country.

Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

This long disease, my life.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Science is the only savior.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Science is the only religion of mankind.