Science Quotes

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

War is science of destruction.

Science always uses metaphor.

How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

The people - could you patent the sun ?

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.