Science Quotes

Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, —The arts and sciences,And a thousand a...

The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jenn...

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other s...

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the ...

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man...

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism...

[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launche...

Science is organized knowledge.

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter ...

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that s...

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

They had been talking about astrology, a forbidden science that was not pursued in the cloister. Nar...

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the ot...

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must...

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance...

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not de...

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsquea...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

A = A is a simplification, one so radical that it sometimes utterly distorts reality. It skins reali...

Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psycho...

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the per...

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentiment...

Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon...

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science a...

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself u...

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there ...

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadil...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment...

Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwith...

...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordi...

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of s...

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence...

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

...We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelation...

There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called li...

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral t...

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy,...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

It is possible to be too stable. No Outer World has colonized a new planet in two and a half centuri...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden o...

We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?""In a rather simple way. It me...

A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal...

I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with...

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty ...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independen...

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no...

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, ...

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giant...

What goes up must come down.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy play...

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he kn...

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to descri...

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their severa...

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d...

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic ...

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the ...

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in whi...

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or event...

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying t...

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academi...

The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent r...

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic ...

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

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

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into n...

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the re...

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun...