Science Quotes

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Elizabeth Moon

An exact science is one that admits loss.

Genesis P-Orridge

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Edmund Husserl

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.

William Stanley Jevons

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Stephen Hawking

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Allen Klein

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

Wellington Mara

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Loren Eiseley

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Rene Auberjonois

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

Isaac Newton

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.

Joseph Campbell

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.

Joshua Foer

Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.

Felix Alba-Juez

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Will Durant

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth

Carl Sagan

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.

Northrop Frye

... the progress of science still depends on a few people of vision.

Lewis M. Branscomb

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Jim Stanford