All Quotes

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
‐‐ Ivar Giaever

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.
‐‐ Robin Ince

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

Science is what scientists do.
‐‐ Dennis Flanagan

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
‐‐ Donald Knuth

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
‐‐ Erwin Chargaff

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
‐‐ Elie Metchnikoff

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. 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 knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
‐‐ Gregory Bateson

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
‐‐ E. T. Bell

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
‐‐ Karl Popper

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
‐‐ Liberty Hyde Bailey

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.
‐‐ Helen Keller

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
‐‐ Earl Wilson

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
‐‐ Heinrich Rohrer

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
‐‐ Paul Valery

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.
‐‐ Lee Smolin

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
‐‐ James D. Watson

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
‐‐ Karl Popper

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
‐‐ Jules Verne

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.
‐‐ John Polanyi

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
‐‐ Marla Gibbs

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
‐‐ Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
‐‐ Vera Rubin

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
‐‐ Mae Jemison

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
‐‐ Alan Kay

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

Science rules!
‐‐ Bill Nye

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.
‐‐ Francis Collins

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.
‐‐ Craig Venter