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Quotes About Science

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.
~ Herman Melville
If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.
~ John Raese
Man lives for science as well as bread.
~ William James
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
~ Chauncey Wright
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
~ Aristotle
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
~ Charles Darwin
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
~ Edith Hamilton
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."
~ Edward Teller
All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
~ Ernest Rutherford
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
~ George Meredith
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.
~ Terrance Dicks
To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.
~ Terrence W. Deacon
It's a cause championed by the tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the TED Talk darling Aubrey de Gray, Google's billion-dollar Calico longevity lab and investment by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. The National Academy of Medicine, an independent group, recently
~ Terry James
Its focus is on treatments that can lengthen telomeres—the "caps" at the end of each strand of DNA. Telomeres get shorter each time a cell copies itself. As cells copy themselves throughout our lives, the telomeres eventually
~ Terry James
Neil deGrasse Tyson have scoffed that "God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance." Atheists like him claim
~ Terry James
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
~ Terry Pratchett
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.
~ Tess Gerritsen
THE science of love! Sweet is the echo of that word to the ear of my soul. I desire no other science. Having given all my substance for it, like the spouse in the Canticles, I think that I have given nothing. (Cant. 8:7).
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
Quantum physics makes me so happy—it's like looking at the universe naked.
~ The Big Bang Theory
Our genes make us immortal.
~ The Secret of Life
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
~ The Talmud