Quotes About Science

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Theology is the happy science concerned with the task of pointing to him whose yoke is easy, whose burden is light. Theology is not in the business of absolutizing itself, but rather of pointing beyond itself to the one who gives

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Insomma, da tutto ciò che si è in quest'opera ragionato, è da finalmente conchiudersi che questa scienza porta indivisibilmente seco lo studio della pietà, e che, se non siesi pio, non si può daddovero esser saggio, SN 1112

Sin religión alguna de una Divinidad, jamás los hombres en nación se concertaron; y así comode cosas físicas, o sea de los movimientos de los cuerpos, no cabeciencia segura sin la guía de las verdades abstractas de la matemática, así no cabe en las cosas morales sin el aprecio de las verdades abstractas de la metafísica, y por tanto sin la demostración de Dios.

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

believed that education was damaging—too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction. To prove her

The widow's own grandmother had believed that education was damaging — too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction.

If it wriggles, it's biology. If it smells, it's chemistry. And if it doesn't work, it's physics.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

The GE press release went to the papers the very next day: "Scientists of the General Electric Company, flying an airplane over Greylock Mountain in western Massachusetts yesterday, conducted experiments with a cloud three miles long, and were successful in transforming the cloud into snow.

Non so quando, ma so che in tanti siamo venuti in questo secolo per sviluppare arti e scienze, porre i semi della nuova cultura che fiorirà, inattesa, improvvisa, proprio quando il potere si illuderà di avere vinto.

Todas las ciencias se reducen a la física, y la física se puede ahora reducir a una sola fórmula.

En todos los grandes hombres de ciencia, existe el soplo de la fantasía, madre de las intuiciones geniales.

Magia est pars practica scientiae naturalis (Magic is the practical part of natural science)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Atheism is no genius, science stuff.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Ein Jahrhundert, das sich bloß auf die Analyse verlegt und sich vor der Synthese gleichsam fürchtet, ist nicht auf dem rechten Wege; denn nur beide zusammen, wie Aus- und Einatmen, machen das Leben der Wissenschaft. 1829, "Analyse und Synthese

It seems a pity that Psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. It is a natural enough catastrophe; for the very act of changing it from a matter of common sense to a matter of scientific enquiry, labelled and separated as a science, involves a change which nobody has adequately noted.

Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

The genius, even when he endeavours only to entertain with pleasing images of nature, or instruct by uncontested principles of science, yet suffers persecution from innumerable criticks, whose acrimony is excited merely by the pain of seeing others pleased, and of hearing applauses which another enjoys.