Quotes About Science

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we're born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.