Science Quotes

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.