Science Quotes
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There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole. (Quote by - Sir William Cecil Dampier Whetham)
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. (Quote by - Fred Alan Wolfe)
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (Quote by - John Dewey)
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. (Quote by - Sir Humphrey Davy)
What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. (Quote by - Bible)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. (Quote by - Ernest Rutherford)
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. (Quote by - John Moffat)
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. (Quote by - Max Gluckman)
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy, (Quote by - Sir Humphrey Davy)
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. (Quote by - John D. Barrow)
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go. (Quote by - Tom Hanks)
Art is I; Science is we. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. (Quote by - Ken Jenkins)
Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Science is organized knowledge. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. (Quote by - Sir Francis Darwin)
Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Quote by - Eden Phillpotts)
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. (Quote by - Linus Pauling)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Quote by - Marston Bates)
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. (Quote by - Sam Ervin)
Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
The great men of science are supreme artists. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. (Quote by - Archimedes)
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
A satellite has no conscience. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb. (Quote by - Bernard Lovell)
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. (Quote by - Charles Pierce)
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasow)
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. (Quote by - Peter B. Medawar)
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Science is the systematic classification of experience. (Quote by - George Henry Lewes)
Science is practical philosophy. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
Science is piecemeal revelation. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes 1)
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. (Quote by - Karl Friedrich Gauss)
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. (Quote by - J.T. Fraser)
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. (Quote by - Evelyn Fox Keller)
Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. (Quote by - Georges Brague)
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. (Quote by - Hugh Walpole)
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. (Quote by - Arthur M. Schlesinger)
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?" (Quote by - Erwin Chargaff)
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. (Quote by - Tobias George Smollett)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
Observations always involve theory. (Quote by - Edwin Hubble)
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. (Quote by - Robert Quillen)
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. (Quote by - Francis Darwin)
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. (Quote by - Jane Howard)
Science is the desire to know causes. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. (Quote by - Ashley Montagu)
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
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. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. (Quote by - Will Durant)
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' (Quote by - Dave Parnas)
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. (Quote by - Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil)
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion (Quote by - Lazarus Long)
Science is an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery. (Quote by - Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood)
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Quote by - Henry B. Adams )
If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. (Quote by - Howard Nemerov)
Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. (Quote by - Bruce Feirstein)
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. (Quote by - Edward Teller)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. (Quote by - M. Cartmill)
For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. (Quote by - George Wald)
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. (Quote by - Madam Marie Curie)
There are no shortcuts in evolution. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness. (Quote by - James Bryant Conant)
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. (Quote by - Konrad Lorenz)
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. (Quote by - Rudolph Ladenburg)
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. (Quote by - William James)
The science of fools with long memories. (Quote by - James Robinson Planche)
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. (Quote by - John Desmond Bernal)
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
Science is the literature of truth. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. (Quote by - George Santayana)
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. (Quote by - Theodore Roszak)
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. (Quote by - Werner von Braun)
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. (Quote by - John von Neumann)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. (Quote by - Leszczynski Stanislaus)
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. (Quote by - James D. Watson)
Science is not belief, but the will to find out. (Quote by - Anon)
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. (Quote by - Wernher von Braun)
Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately. (Quote by - Dr. Karl Menninger)
While bright-eyed science watches round. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? (Quote by - Edward N. Lorenz)
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. (Quote by - Jules Henri Poincare)
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. (Quote by - Thomas Browne)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. (Quote by - Russell Baker)
That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! (Quote by - Wolfgang Pauli)
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. (Quote by - Ivan Pavlov)
But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence. (Quote by - Sir William Cecil Dampier Whetham)
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. (Quote by - Celia Green)
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. (Quote by - Frank Wilczek)
Science is the topography of ignorance. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Quote by - Cicero)
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. (Quote by - Edwin Powell Hubble)
Science does not know its debt to imagination. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. (Quote by - Leon Battista Alberti)
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. (Quote by - John Dewey)
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. (Quote by - Robert L. Park)
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Ethics and Science need to shake hands. (Quote by - Richard Clarke Cabot)
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Quote by - Ashley Montague)
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. (Quote by - Paul Dirac)
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov )
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury )
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. (Quote by - F.K. Richtmeyer)
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
For NASA, space is still a high priority. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. (Quote by - Abraham Flexner)
Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. (Quote by - Isidor Isaac Rabi)
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. (Quote by - Gerard Piel)
Physics is geometric proof on steroids. (Quote by - S.A. Sachs)
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. (Quote by - Edward Teller)
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. (Quote by - Henry J. Tillman)
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein )
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. (Quote by - Sir William Bragg)
It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. (Quote by - Robert K. Merton)
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. (Quote by - Mark Russell)
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. (Quote by - Alan Valentine)
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' (Quote by - Max Planck)
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole. (Quote by - Friedrich Karl Ludwig Schoedler)
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. (Quote by - James H. Boren)
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing. (Quote by - Pierre Emile Duclaux)
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. (Quote by - Sir Humphrey Davy)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. (Quote by - Leon Lederman)
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. (Quote by - Peter B. Medawar)
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. (Quote by - Alan Perlis)
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Quote by - Wernher Von Braun)
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. (Quote by - Edmund Hillary)
'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. (Quote by - James Beattie)
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. (Quote by - Sir Humphrey Davy)
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Quote by - Max Planck)
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Quote by - Max Planck)
The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics. (Quote by - Jason Love)
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. (Quote by - Max Planck)
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. (Quote by - E. B. White)
