Science Quotes
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.Louis Pasteu
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
A good conscience is a continual feast.Robert Burton
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.John Von Neumann
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.Andrew Schneide
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.Henri Poincare
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.Anonymous
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.Charles Robert Darwin
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.Bertrand Russell
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein
Science would be ruined if like sports it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads - By - Choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.Benoit Mandelbrot
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
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.Bill Wulf
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.Max Gluckman
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.J. Frank Dobie
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.Oscar Wilde
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
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.Hellen Kelle
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.Karl R. Poppe
