Science Quotes

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Science is not wisdom.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.