Quotes About Science

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

If people don't have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.