Quotes About Science

That is how science and medicine are practiced best, though—we are best when we admit our ignorance up front, and then attempt to fill the darkness of not-knowing with the light of information and knowledge.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

Every culture seems to have customs to ward off evil. Italians use the curved horn, and Eastern European Jews used to say insulting things to babies, such as "Oy, such an ugly girl!" to avoid tempting the devil. America's magic charms are private education, science camp, and SAT tutors to ward off our evil: personal failure. Mothers

Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?" "Much better. And yes, I do. I had to memorize the planets when I was in third grade, and it was one of them, and I don't like having to relearn things.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.

Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

The science of life… is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Experimentation is an active science.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Art is I: Science is We.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I may be subjected to the criticism of being called 'scientistic' or a kind of blind believer in science who holds that science is able to solve absolutely all problems. Well, I certainly don't believe that, because I cannot conceive that a day will come when science will be complete and achieved.