Science Quotes

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.