Quotes About Science

Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life!

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

...we arrive at the mathematical laws of the physical world. Physics is mathematical, not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

I think poetry is the greatest of the arts. It combines music and painting and story-telling and prophecy and the dance. It is religious in tone, scientific in attitude. A true poem contains the seed of wonder...

A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.

Psychiatry is at present a significantly descriptive and classificatory science which is still more somatically than psychologically oriented, and which lacks possibilities for explaining observed phenomena. But psychoanalysis is not in opposition to psychiatry, as one might be led to believe by the almost unanimous behaviour of psychiatrists.

In this narrow sense, World War II is a radio war, and radio is clearly an important weapon of warfare. But creatively, editorially, radio is an art, a business and a science, in that order of importance.

The rainbow, "the bridge of the gods," proved to be the bridge to our understanding of light — much more important.

Religion considers the Universe deterministic and science considers it probabilistic — an important distinction.

Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!"

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though live ideas are born out of it. Worms, also, feed upon corpses.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or mollusc, and isolated it, — which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusc or man or angel only exists in system, in relation... Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science...

Physics is the basic science. One can easily argue that all other sciences are specialized aspects of physics.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Physics is geometric proof on steroids.

The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.