Science Quotes

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

I was particularly good at math and science.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

So I decided on science when I was in college.