Science Quotes

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

You can swim (uncomfortably) in water at a temperature slightly above freezing; a tiny drop in temperature-or a miracle-allows you to walk on water.

If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.