Science Quotes

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

Richard P. Feynman

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

Johannes P. Muller

I tried to make up by offering to be a subject for any cute tricks that science might want to try. And said, Mr. Wood, we cannot use you as an experimental animal, and I tod him, Doc, I'm an effeminate queer, I've never been used as anything else!

Robert Patrick (playwright)

On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.

Anatol Rapoport

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Gravity always wins

Michael Hirsch

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

John Joseph Griffin

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

E. O. Wilson

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

If you believe in science you must have a rather strong faith.

Walter Veith

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Rodney Stark

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

Brian Greene

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

Stephen Wolfram

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

Wilhelm Dilthey

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.

Max Planck

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Michael Crichton

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Jamie Zawinski