Science Quotes

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

An exact science is one that admits loss.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.

To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

Education is only second to nature.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.