Science Quotes

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.