Quotes About Science

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.

Clones are people two.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.