Science Quotes

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explain...

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate herita...

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserab...

Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controll...

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive t...

The reason [James Clerk] Maxwell's Demon cannot exist is that it does take resources to perform an a...

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiterac...

At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at ...

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

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise co...

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of pr...

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scie...

Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Lea...

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is...

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, si...

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.

The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm an...

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated fr...

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dea...

Swimming the ocean a giant brain watches us.

Us" versus "them" is not in our genes. It is something we learn.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world ...

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven ...

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was...

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is...

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been m...

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific ins...

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...

We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity...

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the ...

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...

Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combinati...

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly inte...

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtfu...

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an inc...

[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that ...

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

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wre...

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

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own righ...

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of...

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets be...

True art is by nature moral. We recognize true art by its careful, thoroughly honest search for and ...

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math a...

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and ...

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we...

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box d...

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. Al...

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed f...

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

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, ...

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Bab...

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene cras...

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tunin...

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to s...

John Muir, Earth — planet, Un

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward ...

As a consequence, scientists who are carefully reflectiveabout their activity do not instinctively a...

If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source...

The widespread success of science is too significantan issue to be treated as if it were a happy acc...

Inthe scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some-times used pejoratively to refer to ...

The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages th...

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear ...

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to...

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of oth...

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. A...

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existenc...

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my kno...

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be...

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to ...

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a u...

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of comm...

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

Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences ...

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated ro...

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standi...

Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If ...

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that...

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And th...