All Quotes

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
‐‐ Huston Smith

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
‐‐ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science is magic that works.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
‐‐ Michael Behe

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
‐‐ Richard Powers

Science is not addressed to poets.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
‐‐ Brian Schmidt

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

Science is not inherently good.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
‐‐ Paul Greengard

Science is nothing but perception.
‐‐ Plato

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
‐‐ David Deutsch

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
‐‐ Seth Berkley

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Science is organized knowledge.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

Science is our last and greatest frontier.
‐‐ Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
‐‐ George Eliot

Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
‐‐ Bill Nye

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
‐‐ Hippocrates

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
‐‐ Adam Smith

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.
‐‐ Polykarp Kusch

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
‐‐ Louis Pasteur

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
‐‐ Mike Johanns

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
‐‐ Bill Nye

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
‐‐ P. T. Barnum

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
‐‐ John O'Keefe

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
‐‐ Carrie Snow

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
‐‐ Linus Pauling

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.
‐‐ Masatoshi Koshiba