Quotes About Science

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Geometry is the most complete science.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.