Quotes About Science

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.

Science is nothing but perception.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.