Science Quotes

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Robert Lanza

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

Accept nothing, challenge everything.

Anonymous

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Iain Banks

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Matthew Fox

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Robert Ballard

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Raymond Chandler

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Jonathan Sacks

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Albert Einstein

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Albert Einstein

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hugh Walpole

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

Kyle Chandler

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

Mayer Hawthorne

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Olympia Brown

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Don Marquis

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Howard Nemerov

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

John Charles Polanyi