Quotes About Science

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.