Science Quotes

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Albert Jay Nock

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

Eric Hoffer

It's time to rescue intelligent design from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

Deepak Chopra

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Ayn Rand

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

Laurel Clark

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

Craig Stevens

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

Brian Cox (physicist)

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

Yuan T. Lee

I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

Yann Martel

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Benjamin Disraeli

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

Michael Polanyi

Science rules!

Bill Nye

It is worth noting that a wrong folkoric definition of an Inertial Frame in the Popular Science literature (even in text books) reads that 'it is a frame in uniform motion'. We know very well by now that the idea of motion requires a frame of reference, so that such a definition of an Inertial Frame has no meaning whatsoever, confusing the reader because it tacitly reaffirms the idea of absolute motion -- when the goal of every didactic exposition of Relativity Theory should be precisely the opposite.

Felix Alba-Juez

I don't read Science Fiction.

Brent Spiner

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

Mike Tyson

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to try more than if you are a pessimist.

Stanislaw Ulam

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

James Gleick

No one disputes that seeming order can out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Robert J. Sawyer

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Peter Hammill