Quotes About Science

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

If you will look into the Science of Spirit you will see that your life is meant to be sustained by the Science of God and not by the science of matter.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.