Quotes About Science

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.