Quotes About Science

Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.