Quotes About Science

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.