Quotes About Science

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

Right now, doctors can test for about 2, 500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.