Quotes About Science

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.

Stereotyping reduces individuals to an average, whereas science recognizes that many people fall outside the average range for their group.

[Discoveries] are sent to you in strange ways. Grab them while you can. I'll take that as my scientific legacy.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

Science similarly contains within itself the devices for correcting the illusions of science. That is its crowning glory. When we come upon intellectual endeavours that contain no such devices—one might cite psychoanalysis, grand political theories, 'new age' science, creationist science—we need not be interested.

The power of science comes from being able to say something, without having to say everything.

By the time Stalin died on 5 March 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history. It was at once the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

lot of them were wearing T-shirts under their lab coats, bearing the legend I Blow Things Up, Therefore I Am, Even If Someone Else Suddenly Isn't.

I know you don't like to admit it, Happy, but it's all science, all of the time. Ghosts, demons, the afterworlds- all of existence and everything beyond- it's all science. We don't always understand it yet, that's all. Now hush like a good bunny and let me get on with my work, or I'll start throwing words like -quantum- around, and you know how you hate that.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Proof is what lies at the heart of maths, and is what marks it out from other sciences. Other sciences have hypotheses that are tested against experimental evidence until they fail, and are overtaken by new hypotheses. In maths, absolute proof is the goal, and once something is proved, it is proved forever, with no room for change.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.

The nineteenth-century mathematician Leopold Kronecker said, "God made the integers; all the rest is the work of man.

The language should be accorded just the same dignity and respect as those other standards that science was then also defining.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

The road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.