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Quotes About Science

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.
~ Carl Woese
The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.
~ Claude C. Hopkins
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
~ Thomas Paine
I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.
~ William Daniel Phillips
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
~ Barack Obama
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"
~ Bex Taylor-Klaus
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
~ Malcolm X
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
~ John Ambrose Fleming
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
~ Samuel Alexander
The most developed science remains a continual becoming
~ Jean Piaget
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.
~ James Grant
How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?
~ Louis Pasteur
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.
~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
~ Agnes Repplier
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
~ B. F. Skinner
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
~ John Charles Polanyi
Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
~ Georges Braque
Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
~ Jim Morrison
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
~ Thomas Szasz
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
~ Charles Lyell
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.
~ William Whewell
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
~ Nicholas Lobachevsky