Quotes About Science

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.

In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

You're telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?"Kohler shrugged. "Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

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

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

There are many kinds of truth: societal truths, religious truths, fundamental truths, scientific truths, and universal truths. Your truth should be what you can trust with your heart.