Science Quotes

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.