Science Quotes

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.