Quotes About Science

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

'Impossible' is not a scientific term.

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions

We can no longer allow Americas dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. Ill put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Leadership is the science of converting possibilities in to realities and the art of drawing a picture that others think is their.

Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you're not in control, doesn't it? I should've considered that.

Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors." But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.

When our eyes see the whole range of visible light together, they read it as "white." When some of the wavelengths are missing, they see it as "colored.

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.