Science Quotes

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.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

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?

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

I love science fiction.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.