Quotes About Science

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.