Science Quotes

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.

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

Science is the only savior.

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

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

This long disease, my life.

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

Science belongs to no one country.

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

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

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

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

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

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

Science is the only religion of mankind.

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

We see only what we know.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!