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Quotes About Science

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?
~ David Letterman
Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
~ Greg Egan
We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.
~ Barack Obama
To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.
~ Vannevar Bush
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.
~ Camille Paglia
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
~ E. O. Wilson
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.
~ Dalai Lama
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
~ Xenocrates
Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
~ Wanda Sykes
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
~ Rudolf Virchow
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
~ Asa Gray
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.
~ Frank Knight
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
~ Louis Pasteur
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
~ Margaret of Valois
Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)
~ Steven Moffat
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
~ Lance Secretan
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
~ Leonardo da Vinci