Quotes About Science

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

Nature engenders the science of painting

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.