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Quotes About Science

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
~ John Hay
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
~ Evelyn Waugh
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
~ Steven Wright
When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.
~ Geeta Iyengar
At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
~ James D. Watson
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
~ Aleister Crowley
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
~ Hilaire Belloc
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.
~ George Polya
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics
~ Brian Cox
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
~ Max Planck
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
~ Thomas Kuhn
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
~ Alfred Adler
No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
~ Brian Cox
It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.
~ Hilary Putnam
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
~ Albert Einstein
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
~ Helene Cixous
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.
~ Richard Dawkins
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
~ Eric Kandel