Science Quotes

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.