Science Quotes

Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

Fritjof Capra

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.

David Sedaris

I was a Political Science major.

Harry Shearer

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

David Eagleman

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.

E. M. Forster

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Something but not nothing because nothing is an infinite possibility.

Kyle Kipple

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Michael Jordan

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

Pieter Zeeman

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

Ronald Fisher

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Ibn Khaldun

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Carl Sagan

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Carl Sagan

Science which has become a great power in the lastcentury, has analyzed everything divine handed down tous in the holy books. After this cruel analysis thelearned of this world have nothing left of all thatwas sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts andoverlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness ismarvelous.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein