Quotes About Science

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.