Science Quotes: Inspiring Discoveries and Reflections

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way"

Robert Nozick, Philosopher

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings"

Helen Keller, Author

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science"

Steven Adler, Musician

"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

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

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ"

John Calvin, Theologian

"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"Yoga is an art and science of living"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Science is organized knowledge"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them"

Maya Lin, Architect

"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history"

John Coleman, Businessman

"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

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