All Quotes

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
‐‐ Edwin Land

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
‐‐ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.
‐‐ Tyrone Hayes

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Science is a self-sufficient activity.
‐‐ Jonathan Miller

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
‐‐ Carl Sagan

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

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

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Science is about filling in the details.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

Science is about unravelling nature.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Science is all metaphor.
‐‐ Timothy Leary

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

Science is always inquiring.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
‐‐ Eric Gill

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
‐‐ Jose Padilha

Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant - that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity.
‐‐ Harry Kroto

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
‐‐ Lord Kelvin

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Science is but an image of the truth.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
‐‐ Edgar Quinet

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
‐‐ Bonnie Bassler

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.
‐‐ Huston Smith

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

Science is facts.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.
‐‐ Bruce Beutler

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
‐‐ Joseph Roux

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
‐‐ Sally Ride

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.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
‐‐ Sydney Smith

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
‐‐ Gerald Edelman

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier.
‐‐ John O'Keefe

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
‐‐ Luther Burbank