Science quotes

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Science is nothing but perception.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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.