Quotes About Science

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.