Science Quotes

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.