Quotes About Science

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.