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Quotes About Science

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
~ Donald Knuth
[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
~ Herbert Spencer
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
~ Claude Bernard
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
~ Claude Bernard
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.
~ Lord Kelvin
Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.
~ Lev Artsimovich
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.
~ Erich Fromm
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.
~ Barack Obama
All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
~ Kenneth Appel
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
~ Peter Hammill
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.
~ Gene Wolfe
The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
~ Jonas Salk
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
~ Niels Bohr
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
~ Thomas Kuhn
People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
~ Bill Gates
I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC.
~ Daniel D. Palmer
If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
~ Niels Bohr
To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.
~ Leo Errera
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.
~ Andrew Schneider
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
~ Annie Besant