Science quotes

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

Science always uses metaphor.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Art is I science is we.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

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

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.