Quotes About Science

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

I don't believe in mathematics.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.