Science Quotes

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

We understand more than we know.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.