Quotes About Science

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

What place, then, for a creator?

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

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All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

Even if ninety-nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters.

Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be.

Reality is a construct of the neurons.