Quotes About Science

My father's theory… was defined by a hasty press as being this—that God hid the fossils in the rocks in order to tempt geologists into infidelity.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction.

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.

The person you love is 72.8% water, and it hasn't rained for weeks.

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

The problem with which man is faced cannot be answered by scientific inventions. The conquest of nature does not lie in evolving keener sight, swifter motion, larger strength. This is but magnification. which leaves the element of the problem untouched. Can you conquer, not nature, but the nature of things?

Science and religion have in common the aim of seeking and achieving unity. Most scientists today are being led increasingly away from the fundamental aim of science to achieve unity into rather limited ways of thinking without much open-mindedness, doing things merely to meet limited material needs.

DNA, you know, is Midas' gold. Everyone who touches it goes mad