Science Quotes

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...

There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: th...

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which ...

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of i...

Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; f...

The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential...

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to res...

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...m...

My fish dream is a sex dream.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can...

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...

And such in fact is the behaviour of the specialist. In politics, in art, in social usages, in the o...

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled b...

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a...

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me wi...

Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which h...

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming...

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalis...

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more...

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illus...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was someth...

By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;Yet still the silver corpse must spinAnd wit...

Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My po...

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can hap...

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ...

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, relig...

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this h...

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-...

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he ...

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is s...

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep ...

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting,...

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician...

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

You must rely on reason and science,” she said, “and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human...

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be ...

I believe The Bible is the infallible inspired inerrant Word of The Living God and scientifically ac...

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image ...

For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by s...

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyp...

He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose t...

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

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

If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of...

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physi...

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the sp...

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective prope...