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Science Quotes
"Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!"
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"Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well."
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"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
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"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."
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"There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory."
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"As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize."
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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
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"Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science."
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"Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts."
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"I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything."
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"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."
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"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
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"Statistics is the grammar of science."
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"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."
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"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago."
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"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
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"We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected."
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"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
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"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
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"Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding."
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"Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all."
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"Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment."
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"Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine."
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"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
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"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it."
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"Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with."
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"There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case."
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"The current best estimate for the Earth's weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from Cavendish's finding."
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"I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open-always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake-after a wrong guess."
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"Without space, there is no time."
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"And I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries."
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"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
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