Quotes About Science

IS SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT TO GO BLIND?" asks _Popular Science_ associate editor Gregory Mone, apparently worried that this may be a symptom of too much fondling of one's Singularity.

The astonishing saga of the code breakers is really an example of the power of mathematics. Hardy's "clean and gentle" science, as it turned out, was stronger than the entire German war machine, which, for all its posturing, ended up being trumped by a group of geeky mathematicians and engineers working out their ideas on paper and fitting electrical switches inside ugly-looking machines.

Now that we can clone humans they've removed the one pleasurable thing about having a child.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND

Information is the religion of the modern world.

People have argued about God and government for centuries, and still they don't agree. But science, confronts opinion with facts.

Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

God is a scientist, not a magician.