Quotes About Science

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.