Science Quotes

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.

Science is the future of mankind.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.