All Quotes

Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.
‐‐ Arthur Lewis

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
‐‐ Irving Langmuir

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
‐‐ Arthur Young

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
‐‐ Ernst Mach

Science always uses metaphor.
‐‐ James Lovelock

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
‐‐ Chuck Berry

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
‐‐ Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
‐‐ John Sulston

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
‐‐ Eric Ries

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
‐‐ Henry Taube

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
‐‐ Rupert Sheldrake

Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
‐‐ James Balog

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
‐‐ Harold E. Varmus

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
‐‐ Carol W. Greider

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.
‐‐ Robert D. Hare

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
‐‐ Heinz R. Pagels

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
‐‐ Max Planck

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
‐‐ John Polkinghorne

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.
‐‐ Richard K. Morgan

Science changes, and it's odd to me that scientists say, 'Never be skeptical,' because it was in the mid-'70s when they were saying we're sunk because we're going to have global climate cooling.
‐‐ Matt Mead

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.
‐‐ Megan Smith

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

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.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
‐‐ Sam Harris

Science does not permit exceptions.
‐‐ Claude Bernard

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
‐‐ Scott Pelley

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
‐‐ Paul Fleischman

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
‐‐ Matt Groening