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Quotes About Science

I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.
~ Mildred Dresselhaus
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
~ Richard Dawkins
Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
~ Steve Jobs
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.
~ Robert Henri
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.
~ Anita Borg
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
~ Isaac Newton
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
~ Claude Bernard
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
~ Isaac Newton
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
~ Isaac Asimov
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
~ Giambattista Vico
Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here.
~ Phil Plait
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
~ Carl Sagan
Astrology is a disease, not a science.
~ Maimonides
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
~ Isaac Newton
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
~ Northrop Frye
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
~ Theodore J. Hoover
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
~ John Burroughs
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
~ Vinod Khosla
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
~ Max Planck
Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke