Science Quotes

"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Science is facts"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

"But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones"

Max Born, Mathematician

"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"History is the science of things which are not repeated"

Paul Valery, Poet

"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature"

Paul Valery, Poet

"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

"New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared"

Barack Obama, President

"Science always uses metaphor"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion"

Bruno Mars, Musician

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge"

Stendhal, Writer

"Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

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