Science Quotes

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.