Quotes About Science

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

The professor urged upon Fred that to base one's calculations on unobservables - such as God, such as the soul, such as the atom, such as the elementary particle - was nothing more than a comforting weakness. 'I don't deny that all human beings need comfort. But scientists should not indulge themselves on quite this scale.

But he also saw himself as a geognost, a natural scientist, who, as he put it, had come 'to an entirely new land, and dark stars'. The mining industry, it seemed to him, was not a science, but an art.

Chemically similar to picric acid, trinitrotoluene, known as TNT from the initials of tri, nitro, and toluene, was better suited for munitions.

The C in vitamin C indicates that it was the third vitamin ever identified.

For any spirit of scientific bent, seeing more in something that is actually there is actually to see less. What you add in substance, you take away in spirit.