Quotes About Science

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle.

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.