Science Quotes

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

[Science is] the literature of truth.

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

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

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

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

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.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

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?

Science always uses metaphor.

War is science of destruction.

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

Science disembodies; art embodies.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

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

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

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.