Science Quotes

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

Many small make a great.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.