Quotes About Science

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion and he will be frenzied.

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

True progress in every scientific field means that the problems become multiplied and that new questions keep coming to the surface.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manne