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Quotes About Science

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
~ David Suzuki
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
~ Leon M. Lederman
I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.
~ Samuel Hahnemann
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
~ Tim Minchin
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.
~ P.Z. Myers
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
~ Burton Richter
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion
~ Richard P. Feynman
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
~ Chuck Berry
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.
~ Magnus Hirschfeld
History is a science, no more and no less.
~ J. B. Bury
Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.
~ Lee Smolin
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
~ Jill Tarter
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
~ Marie Curie
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
~ Alan Moore
I'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder
~ Thomas Armstrong
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
~ Francis Crick
Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.
~ Gina McCarthy
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
~ Charles Fort
Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.
~ Theodore von Karman
Life ... is a relationship between molecules.
~ Linus Pauling
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
~ Adam Sedgwick
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
~ Claude Bernard
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
~ George Wald