Science Quotes

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Combine science and humanities.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Man's Place in Nature.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.