Science Quotes

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

Hindsight is an exact science.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.