Science Quotes

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.