Science Quotes

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but thats a little way off yet.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Art is science in the flesh.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.