Science Quotes

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

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.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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

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.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Leave the atom alone.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Science is nothing but perception.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

There is no complete theory of anything.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

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.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

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.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Art is I; science is we.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Science is organized knowledge.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

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.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Science grows like a weed every year.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.