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Quotes About Science

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?
~ Patrick P. Gelsinger
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]
~ Abba Eban
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.
~ C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
~ Carl Sagan
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
~ Arthur Erickson
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
~ Harmony Korine
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
~ Julie Bishop
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
~ Bertrand Russell
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
~ Frederik Pohl
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
~ Stephen Hawking
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.
~ Paul Davies
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
~ Stephen Hawking
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
~ Charles Richet
Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.
~ Jonah Berger
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
~ Ian Stewart
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
~ Isaac Asimov
All science requires mathematics.
~ Roger Bacon
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt