Science Quotes

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Lev Artsimovich

I'll break the spell or the science of her singing yet. As the only man left it devolves on me to do it.

R. A. Lafferty

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

James Joseph Sylvester

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

Phil Plait

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

Felix Bloch

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

Neal Stephenson

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.

Mas'udi

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.

Carl Sagan

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Martin Lewis Perl

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Ken Norris

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

Frank Knight

If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.

Robert Fulghum

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Denis Kearney

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!

Minsky M.A.

Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.

Kevin Warwick

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

Pierre Desproges

Everything is hard when you have not started yet, but once you begin the hardness dissolves.

Nkosinathi Mehlomakulu