Science Quotes

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.

The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star."

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.