Quotes About Science

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion's case were not just as serious.

El progresista sueña en la estabulación científica de la humanidad.

Es gibt keine universal gültigen Deutungen. Eine religiöse Deutung ist grotesk in einem profanen Kontext, so wie eine profane Deutung grotesk ist in einem religiösen Kontext. Dort sind nur wissenschaftliche Kategorien brauchbar; hier ist alles Zeichen, Symbol, Sakrament. Der Regen ist für den, der anbetet, göttlicher Segen, der auf das Wunder des Weizens fällt.

Die marxistische Soziologie ist die aristotelische Physik der Sozialwissenschaften.

EL mayor triunfo de la ciencia parece estar en la velocidad creciente con que el bobo puede trasladar su bobería de un sitio a otro sitio.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its proposals into standards, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

All science feeds on the convictions that it strangles.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans and animals.

Research employing fractal rules has revealed a three-quarter power law even in the circulatory system.

Self-similarity on all scales is a key factor in understanding and describing nature's phenomena.

Period-doubling is a general principle of nature.

The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.