Science Quotes

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

Universe is a giant wave and mankind needs a giant breakwater: The science! It is the best jetty we ever have!

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.