Quotes About Science

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

I always telling people to "not try this at home," because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can't encourage people to try that stuff.

A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

I hope it won't take long.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.