Quotes About Science

Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.