Science Quotes

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

The true science and study of man is man.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

Science always uses metaphor.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Science is organized knowledge.