Science Quotes

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

War is the science of destruction.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.