Science Quotes

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

We need to make science cool again.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

To understand is to invent.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Whenever you can, count.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.