Science Quotes

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

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.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.