Science Quotes

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Experimentation is an active science.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.