Science Quotes

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

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

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

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.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

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.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

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.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.