Quotes About Science

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It's great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.