Science Quotes

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

Science is in low regard.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"