What Is Science Quotes

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Art is nothing but humanized science.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

All science requires mathematics.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.