Science Quotes

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

I am the thought you are now thinking.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.