Quotes About Science

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

No science ever defends its first principles.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.