Science Quotes

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

Science is global, but solution is local.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.