Quotes About Science

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.