Top 496 Science Quotes

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

David Perlmutter

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Charles Babbage

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

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Honore de Balzac

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Ivan Pavlov

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

Alvin E. Roth

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