Science Quotes
I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.
It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.