Quotes About Science

When you got a giant killer robot, who needs metaphors?

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

The horses were, at last, safe from Czech partisans, Nazi science, Russian cooks

Looking back over fifty years of science and environmental education, I find that the main thing I have taught is how to pay attention.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.