Science Quotes

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."

"All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment."

"Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage."

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."

"Art and science have their meeting point in method."

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

"As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs."

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

"Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct."

"At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession."

"Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others."

"Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe."

"Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science."

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

"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution."

"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

"Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug."

"Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses."

"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them."

"Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been."

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."

"Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws."

"For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov."

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."

"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."

"From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science."

"Geologists have a saying - rocks remember."

"GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future."

"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator."

"Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is."

"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."

"I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications."

"I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric."

"I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise."

"I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife."

"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."

"I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance."

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

"I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe."

"I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

"I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear."

"I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America."

"I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty."

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."