Quotes About Science

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.