Science quotes

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically, ' they really mean, 'not really.'

Leave the atom alone.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

A satellite has no conscience.