Science Quotes

Science grows like a weed every year.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

We especially need imagination in science.

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

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.