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Quotes About Science

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.
~ Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
~ Michael Faraday
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
~ M. C. Escher
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
~ Lord Kelvin
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
~ Robert K. Merton
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
~ Richard Dawkins
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
~ Niels Bohr
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
~ Patricia Cornwell
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
~ Derek Walcott
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
~ Isaac Newton
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
~ Lyman Beecher
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
~ Brian Cox
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
~ Marie Curie
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.
~ Maria Klawe
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
~ Alvin Plantinga
No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.
~ Lise Meitner
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
~ A. A. Gill
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.
~ Michael Faraday