Quotes About Science

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Study the science of art and the art of science.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.