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Quotes About Science

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder
~ Phil Plait
Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.
~ Harold Urey
There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.
~ Thomas Andrews
As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
~ Louise Slaughter
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
~ Émile Durkheim
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.
~ Astro Teller
The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
~ Stephen Hawking
Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
~ Steve Simmons
Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
~ Charles Fort
Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.
~ Martin Rees
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.
~ John William Draper
I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.
~ George M. Church
All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.
~ Karl Popper
but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
~ William Stanley Jevons
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
~ James Bryant Conant
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
~ Dalai Lama
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
~ Barbara Tuchman
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
~ Eckhart Tolle