Quotes About Science

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.