Science Quotes

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.