Science Quotes

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

It's not art, it's science.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.