Science Quotes

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.