Quotes About Science

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.