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Quotes About Science

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
~ Robert Ballard
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
~ Jean Fernel
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.
~ Sam Cooke
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
~ Max Born
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.
~ Pierre Duhem
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
~ John Coleman
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
~ Seth Lloyd
If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.
~ Eric Metaxas
The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.
~ Harold Morowitz
It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat
~ Jeffrey Burton Russell
No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.
~ Bob Wright
Natural history is not about producing fables.
~ David Attenborough
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
~ Barack Obama
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
~ James Rollins
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
~ Johannes V. Jensen
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
~ Carl Sagan
I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.
~ Tila Tequila
From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.
~ Edward Gibbon
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
~ Charles Fort
History is as much an art as a science.
~ Ernest Renan
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
~ John Podhoretz
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
~ Henry Louis Gates
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
~ Richard Dawkins