Science Quotes

Science follows the evidence wherever it leads, but Darwinism does not. So the present controversy over evolution is not a war between science and religion. It is primarily a war between Darwinism and evidence--and the evidence will win.

Jonathan Wells

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

Simon van der Meer

The existence of both ( and ) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction (experimentation) with our external world.

Felix Alba-Juez

It was mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence, wherein the mind appears to play only with itself, that turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances.

Hannah Arendt

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Auguste Comte

It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.

Robert Silverberg

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.

Max Born

A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.

Kevin Smith

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

Donald Knuth

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Carl Sagan

Odiaría morir dos veces, sería tan aburrido!.

Richard P. Feynman

Dirac found that the ratio of the electric force to the gravitational force of an electron-proton pair is roughly equal to the ratio of the age of the universe to the time it takes light to traverse an atom.

Michael Flynn

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan H. Guth

The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.

Aage Niels Bohr

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

William Stanley Jevons

Men are not potatoes!

Robert A. Heinlein

Software engineering is the part of computer science which is too difficult for the computer scientist.

Friedrich Bauer