Science Quotes

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.