Science Quotes

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars

Dr. Carl Sagan

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

Roger Bacon

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

Cordwainer Smith

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.

William Thomson

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

William Bragg

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

William James

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.

William A. Dembski

Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

Robinson Jeffers

...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

Bryan Sykes

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

John Tyndall

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see the pure state.

Richard Hamming

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

Anne Rice

All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the idea of accidental changes that resulted in complex living systems. I was unable to comprehend how the notion that an infinite number of random accidents systematically happened to produce living species, and kept improving these beings, is justified.

T.H. Janabi

Dire .. que l'homme est constitué de certains éléments chimiques est une description ne convenant qu'? ceux dont l'intention est de l'utiliser comme engrais.

Edmund W. Sinnott

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Terry Eagleton

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Kary Mullis