Science Quotes

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Robert A. Heinlein

They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion.

Philip M. Rosenzweig

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard P. Feynman

This is an extraordinary time in the history of science, in that we cannot only theorize about the beginning of the universe, but actually study the celestial fossils of how it happened.

John Moffat

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

Bryan Sykes

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men, but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

Leo Tolstoy

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Frank Herbert

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

Richard Dawkins

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

John Opie

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Paul Krugman

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

Max Planck

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Richard Dawkins

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Sweet is the lore which nature brings,our meddeling interlectmis-shapes the beautious forms of things.we murder to dissect

William Wordsworth

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Lindsay Wagner

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan