Science Quotes

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before ...

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believ...

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition....

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your ...

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait unt...

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, ...

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple,...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal conce...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...

Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinc...

Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious...

We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the w...

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, coup...

(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the import...

The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it wil...

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who i...

...[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves ...

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to ...

Peace begins when expectations end.

How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed i...

A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? I...

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets...

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontie...

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construc...

Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layma...

Not that this deterred him and his friend Klapaucius from further experimentation, which showed that...

So they rolled up their sleeves and sat down to experiment -- by simulation, that is mathematically ...

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcohol...

You are aware that what they do, they do for the world, and the results are, of course, magnificent....

Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the s...

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can unders...

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It ...

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativi...

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives...

t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multit...

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which ...

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing....

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...

What place, then, for a creator?

It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one direc...

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. ...

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average st...

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for...

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

. . .a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exist...

Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and i...

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, ...

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—s...

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories tha...

I swear to use my scientific knowledge for the good of Humanity. I promise never to harm any person ...

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into leg...

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among...

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys ...

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information it is a creative human activity.

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion th...

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and...

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards o...

My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges...

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced an...

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion str...

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your...

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had m...

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and ...

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different l...

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it s...

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, e...

Clara Oswald: This is just a dream, but very clever people can hear dreams. So please, just listen. ...

What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way f...

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natura...

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with in...

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Someti...

The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory ...

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfis...