Quotes About Science

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

Science is just magic with better PR.

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.