Quotes About Science

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.