Science Quotes
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.
Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.
The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.
There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
Science is a form of arrogance control.
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
