Science quotes

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

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

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Man lives for science as well as bread.