Quotes About Science

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

History is the science of people.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.