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Quotes About Science

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.
~ Nigel S. Hey
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
~ David Brin, Existence
I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.
~ K. Lee Lerner
They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
~ Ray Bradbury
Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.
~ Anurag Wadehra
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to no
~ Rudolf Clausius, Abhandlungen
No, Carolyn, you can't petition PETA to get a waiver from dissecting the frog. The frog's already dead. It donated itself to science. Don't let its sacrifice be in vain. -Brandon
~ Abigail Roux, Caught Running
It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons
~ Rachel Carson
There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.
~ Madeleine L'Engle, Many Waters
Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.
~ Robert Woodrow Wilson
The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.
~ Lara Santoro, The Boy
I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.
~ Abhijit Naskar
The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.
~ Paul Greene, A Time of Change
… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.
~ Paul Greene, A Time of Change
All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.
~ Lord Kelvin
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
~ H. G. Wells
Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.
~ Stephen Strauss
My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
~ Marcel Pagnol
Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
~ Henri Poincare
Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
~ Alan Valentine
Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.
~ Paul Davies