Science Quotes

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur'.

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

There are no limits to what science can explore.