Quotes About Science

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at least a little light into the darkness. And it worked.

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.