Science Quotes

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Coincidence is the science of the true believer.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

The fatal futility of Fact.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.