Quotes About Science

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?