Quotes About Science

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.