Science quotes

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.