Quotes About Science

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.