Quotes on science
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Howard, Jane
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
Banks-Smith, Nancy
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Einstein, Albert
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
Peirce, Charles
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Dunne, Finley Peter
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Chekhov, Anton
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Sagan, Carl
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Walpole, Hugh
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Wald, George
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Valentine, Alan
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Gluckman, Max
Who discovered that CFCs [chlorofluorocarbons] posed a threat to the ozone layer? Was it the principal manufacturer, the DuPont Corporation, exercising corporate responsibility? Was it the Environmental Protection Agency protecting us? Was it the Department of Defense defending us? No, it was two ivory-tower, white-coated university scientists working on something else - Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California, Irvine. Not even an Ivy League university. No one instructed them to look for dangers to the environment. They were pursuing fundamental research. They were scientists following their own interests. Their names should be known to every schoolchild.
Sagan, Carl
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Flexner, Abraham
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Bacon, Roger
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Kant, Immanuel
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
Allport, Gordon
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
Fischer, Martin H.
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
Fraser, J.T.
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
Moffat, John
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Phillpotts, Eden
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Darwin, Francis
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
Sagan, Carl
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Kroeber, Alfred L.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Lippmann, Walter
Art, science, philosophy, religion - each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
Abbey, Edward
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Asimov, Isaac
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Twain, Mark