Science Quotes

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.