Science Quotes

Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not act...

The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly ...

Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't ju...

You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten...

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on o...

And although the space they occupy isn’t like normalspace, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. ...

Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman

How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.

It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was suc...

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling cr...

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe...

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts ...

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspirin...

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted w...

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any ...

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the di...

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philos...

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is pre...

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have...

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on th...

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to...

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of rea...

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to...

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But t...

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics ...

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of a...

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religi...

Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imit...

And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one m...

It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They...

I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific wor...

The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding thing...

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have...

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for imposto...

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans...

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...

It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creati...

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and government...

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Geor...

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about a...

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in c...

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of m...

The principal differences between law and science are as follows:1. In the administration of the law...

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain...

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate t...

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging on...

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or per...

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of...

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move i...

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want ...

The taxi driver is someone who spends all day driving in city traffic (an activity that provokes eit...

He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly fo...

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve...

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can...

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths ...

Here and there amidst the wreckage, she found advanced devices that more or less still functioned. W...

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular ty...

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from...

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of...

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything th...

You can observe a lot just by watching.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesm...

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false...

Such terms as 'diagnosis' and 'pathology' are of course used analogically here, but I am using the w...

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it wi...

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;...

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to su...

No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of ope...

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein w...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that inte...

Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man h...

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticat...

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly...

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between na...