Science Quotes

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I've always been interested in science fiction

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.