Science Quotes

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

Art upsets, science reasures.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.