Science Quotes: Inspiring Discoveries and Reflections (Page 3)

"Science is but an image of the truth"

"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences"

Plato, Philosopher

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"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"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce"

John F. Kennedy, President

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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