Science Quotes

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Jacob Bronowski

In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can measure but not manhandle, driven by a force you can infer but not explain.

Tim Radford

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

Carl Sagan

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Polykarp Kusch

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

W.H. Auden

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

Baha'i International Community

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

Lewis Thomas

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

Esther Williams

Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all.

Fritz Leiber

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

Tim Flannery

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Michael Crichton

Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom you meet.

Josh Billings

A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same

Alchemist

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Tony Blair

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

Carl Sagan

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off

Sylvia Plath

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Aaron Allston

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Carter Burwell

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Albert Einstein