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Quotes About Science

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
~ Oliver Sacks
Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.
~ Toyohiko Kagawa
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
~ Claude Bernard
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
~ Imre Lakatos
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
~ Frank Zappa
Hubris and science are incompatible.
~ Douglas Preston
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.
~ Mary Somerville
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
~ Karl Pearson
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.
~ Amit Ray
The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.
~ Walter Russell
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
~ Matthew Arnold
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
~ John Deacon
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.
~ Richard Dawkins
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Mathematics is the gate and key to science.
~ Roger Bacon
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
~ Jared Diamond
The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
~ Albert Pike
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
~ David Hilbert
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).
~ Paul Tillich
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
~ Isaac Asimov
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard