Science Quotes

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Nikola Tesla

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humberto R. Maturana

If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.

John Mighton

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Bernard Wolfe

also attributed to Vince Lombardi

Sasha Azevedo

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Cecil Frank Powell

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Charles Polanyi

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

James D. Watson

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Kenichi Fukui

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Felix Alba-Juez

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

A beautiful bright blue sky; up above so high; how happy i am; to feel fully satisfied.

Santosh Kalwar

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.

Trevor Treharne

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Barack Obama

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

George Gershwin

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

Howard Pattee

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

John Coleman