Quotes About Science

The great men of science are supreme artists.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him?

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth

Back in 1698 Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist who did pioneering work in optics, wrote 'Why [should] not every one of these stars and suns have as great a retinue as our sun, of planets, with their moons to wait upon them?

You get ill, you are accused of being mentally ill, denied effective treatment, then when you campaign for 'real science', you are accused of terrorising those who do not believe in your illness...after all, if your message is that people who say they are suffering from ME or CFS are mentally ill, then accusing them of irrational attacks adds strength to your case.

But orbital mechanics waits for no man,

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men

People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but the sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

[On extraterrestrial life:] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

In fact, it is not impossible that one day the sperm-less fertilization of eggs — based on triggering the genetic code present in any cell of the body — will become a reality.[131]

It now seems possible, even necessary, to reconnect art with science, synthesis with analysis, magic with logic.

I ask only one indulgence. Please remember that like any scientist, I hope to present probable and reasonable solutions, not certainties.

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.

what enthralled my imagination in the whole subject of natural history was not the orderly array of facts, but the glimpse I caught, through this or that fragment of science, of the grand principles underlying the facts.