Science Quotes

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

God is the absolute truth...

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

Nobody ever flunked a science museum

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science.

I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.