Science Quotes

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The simplest science book is over my head.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.