All Quotes

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
‐‐ Polykarp Kusch

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
‐‐ Heinz R. Pagels

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
‐‐ Lance Secretan

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
‐‐ Michael P. Anderson

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
‐‐ Alexander Herzen

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
‐‐ Paul Virilio

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
‐‐ Lennart Meri

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?
‐‐ Harry Kroto

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
‐‐ Max Planck

Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
‐‐ Harry Kroto

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.
‐‐ Richard Preston

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.
‐‐ Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.
‐‐ Richard Leakey

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.
‐‐ Martin Chalfie

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
‐‐ Jean-Francois Lyotard

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
‐‐ Michelangelo Antonioni

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
‐‐ Frederick Soddy

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
‐‐ Madame de Stael

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
‐‐ Thom Mayne

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
‐‐ Thad Cochran

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
‐‐ Frederick Sanger

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.
‐‐ Jenna McCarthy

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
‐‐ Abdus Salam

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
‐‐ Horace Mann

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman