Science Quotes

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.