Science Quotes

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Science is not gadgetry.

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

Persuasion is not a science but an art

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.