Science Quotes

"I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing"

Steven Weinberg, Scientist

"The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?"

Stephen Wolfram, Scientist

"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built"

William Masters, Scientist

"The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research"

Rosa DeLauro, Politician

"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation"

Roger Bacon, Philosopher

"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society"

Paul Berg, Scientist

"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated"

Leon Kass, Educator

"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me"

Yuan T. Lee, Scientist

"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself"

Howard Aiken, Scientist

"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why"

Sidney Hillman, Activist

"There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state"

William Kirby, Scientist

"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

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

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

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

Joseph Needham, Scientist

"The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

"Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable"

Walter Lang, Director

"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true"

Ralph Cudworth, Theologian

"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

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

Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher

"I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded"

James Sanborn, Sculptor

"The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

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