Science Quotes
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"
