Science Quotes

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Science is just magic with better PR.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Man follows only phantoms.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so finely tuned.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]