Science Quotes

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

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

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

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.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.

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.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

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

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

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.

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.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

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.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. 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.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.

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

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

We must know. We will know.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts, it is equally true that facts cannot be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Many small make a great.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

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

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

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

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

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.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

Water is the best of all things.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

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.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

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

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

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.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

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

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

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.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Politics ruins the character.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

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.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements."

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

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 every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

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.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.

Art can contradict Science.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

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.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the world? I would ask, What is the most. simple and general picture of the world that we can formulate that is not ruled by these experiments? I realized that medical and biological investigators were not attacking their problems the same way that theoretical physicists do, the way I had been in the habit of doing.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

War is the science of destruction.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.'

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

Science is organized knowledge.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

The true science and study of man is man.

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

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.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.

Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.

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.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

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

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

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

Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward without choice or effort and there is no trend solely in the right direction. Evolution has no purpose; man must supply this for himself. The means to gaining right ends involve both organic evolution and human evolution, but human choice as to what are the right ends must be based on human evolution.

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

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.

The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

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.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

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

Science is all metaphor.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

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.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

Science is nothing but perception.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.