Science Quotes

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

History is the science of people.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.