Quotes About Science

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.