Quotes About Science

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.