Quotes About Science

You can get 5 million million atoms on the head of a pin", it said. Atoms are dangerous enough – they are what makes the atomic bomb so powerful. So why store them on top of a dangerous sharp object like a pin? They're asking for trouble.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.