Science Quotes

It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

I was a Political Science major.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

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.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Words divide, pictures unite.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

History is a science, no more and no less.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

What is known for certain is dull.

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.