Quotes About Science

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

I don't believe in natural science.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.