Science Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.