Science Quotes

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.