Quotes About Science

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

I do [believe climate change is man-made].

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!

Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.