Science Quotes

"First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better"

"Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years"

John Burroughs, Author

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited"

George Wald, Scientist

"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"The simplest science book is over my head"

James Merrill, Poet

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art"

Paul Klee, Artist

"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago"

John Templeton, Businessman

"Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"From my earliest days I had a passion for science"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I saw science as being in harmony with humanity"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go"

John Burroughs, Author

"I was always good at math and science and physics"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

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