Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Edwin Powell Hubble

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.
Ken Jenkins

Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas Browne

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
Henry J. Tillman

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know.

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.
Theodore Roszak

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain

Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

Science is the literature of truth.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny…”
Isaac Asimov

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Science is the desire to know causes.

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Wernher Von Braun

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
William Lawrence Bragg

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental ‘laws’ of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

In Science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurred.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Tom Hanks

That theory is worthless. It isn’t even wrong!
Wolfgang Pauli

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincar�

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

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.
Max Gluckman, Politics

… the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.

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.
Walter Lippmann

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.

Science is simply common sense at its best.
Thomas Huxley

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.
Aldous Huxley

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
John Moffat

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Albert Einstein

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Evelyn Fox Keller

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
Robert L. Park

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein

The great men of science are supreme artists.
Martin H. Fischer

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
Albert Einstein

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernall

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein

Science is the topography of ignorance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature’s technology.
Karl Marx

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Observations always involve theory.
Edwin Hubble

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
Lewis Thomas

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Albert Einstein

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.
Claude L�vi-Strauss

Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them.

Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Henry David Thoreau

The First Clarke Law states, ‘If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.’

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
Bertrand Russell

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
William James

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
Robert M. Pirsig

The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton

I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.
F.K. Richtmeyer

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a ‘hottest part’ implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
Richard Davisson

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
J.T. Fraser

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
Fred Alan Wolfe

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
Claude Bernard

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself – nature does it for you.
Frank Wilczek

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
Rudolph Ladenburg

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
Fran�ois Rabelais

In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Bertrand Russell

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes’ bath and Newton’s apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western. ~John Reader, Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, “hmm…. that’s funny….”

Physics is geometric proof on steroids.
S.A. Sachs

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.
Richard Clarke Cabot

Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one’s provisional consent.
Stephen Jay Gould

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Life preys upon life. This is biology’s most fundamental fact.
Martin H. Fischer

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

But the great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact – which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers…
T.H. Huxley

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
Kenneth Boulding

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life.

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.
George Wald

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
John Dewey

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.
Jason Love

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Karl Friedrich Gauss

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Abraham Flexner

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Reason, Observation, and Experience – the Holy Trinity of Science.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Anton Chekhov

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H.L. Mencken

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin

Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.

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.
Charles Peirce

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Gerard Piel

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
Max Planck

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Physics isn’t a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.
Leon Lederman

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, “So? Did you learn anything today?” But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist.
Isidor Isaac Rabi

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk.
H.L. Mencken

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
Martin H. Fischer

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
Graffito

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Immanuel Kant

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

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.
G.W. Allport

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
Max Planck

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
H.L. Mencken

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson