Science Quotes

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

The real name for 'science' is magic.

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.