Quotes About Science

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.