Science Quotes

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

the mind is a neural computer

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.