Quotes About Science

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little 'why'.

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.