Science Quotes

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not"

"In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Winning is the science of being totally prepared"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art"

Will Durant, Historian

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom"

Will Durant, Historian

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"I was always attracted to science fiction movies"

Tina Turner, Musician

"Life is not an exact science, it is an art"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive"

George Eliot, Author

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition"

Adam Smith, Economist

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example"

Dave Barry, Author

"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose"

William Blake, Poet

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals"

William James, Philosopher

"Man lives for science as well as bread"

William James, Philosopher

"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"

William Blake, Poet

"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death"

William Blake, Poet

"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart"

Richard Adams, Clergyman

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

David Hume, Philosopher

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

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