Quotes About Science

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.