Quotes About Science

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought