Quotes About Science

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.