Science Quotes

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Chiropractic is a science just so far as it is specific.

God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

We are made of starstuff.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work