Science Quotes

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ...

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poiso...

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the...

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, y...

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thin...

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be c...

Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine p...

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cr...

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fea...

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it '...

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of ...

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that sci...

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. Ther...

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby ...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can'...

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re...

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re...

A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Ad...

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory t...

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other ...

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. ...

One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of ...

I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means am...

A second point that caught my attention was that the very persons who insist upon keeping religion a...

Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because t...

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our scie...

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be t...

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains un...

(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which ...

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more ...

For an instant Stile was daunted by the improbability of it all: a man, a cyborg, a robot, an animal...

Science is nothing but perception.

I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which ...

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change th...

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the ...

That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself ...

Alongside the liberating relief of the veteran who tells us his story, I now felt in the writing a c...

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and ...

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately w...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very ...

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

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

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New Engla...

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has l...

Please don't die.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possibl...

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation...

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrat...

The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting the...

Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of y...

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding ou...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and beco...

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is ...

Sciences can only be validly constituted as ‘sacred sciences’ by those who, before all else, are in ...

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematic...

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...

All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct ...

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho...

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable positi...

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a...

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, so...

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the l...

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which...

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.