Quotes About Science

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.

We need to apply the science of communication to the communication of science.

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry the burden of original sin.

Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.