Quotes About Science

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

Sir Humphry Davy, an accomplished English chemist,

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Science is the response to the demand for information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing...

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

Today chemists can artificially make hundreds of thousands of organic compounds, most of which are not duplicated in nature.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

L'anomalie n'est connue de la science que si elle a d'abord été sentie dans la conscience, sous forme d'obstacle à l'exercice des fonctions, sous forme de gêne ou de nocivité. Mais le sentiment d'obstacle, de gêne ou de nocivité est un sentiment qu'il faut bien dire normatif, puisqu'il comporte la référence même inconsciente d'une fonction et d'une impulsion à la plénitude de leur exercice.

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.