Quotes about science

"Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl."

Adams, Mike on science   

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things."

Allen, Woody on science
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"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."

Arnold, Thomas on science   

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"But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes."

Artaud, Antonin on science   

"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."

Auden, W. H. on science   

"Science is but an image of the truth."

Bacon, Francis on science
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"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

Barr, Amelia E. on science   

"The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all."

Belloc, Hilaire on science   

"In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence."

Berger, P. L. on science   

"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."

Bohr, Niels on science
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"Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures."

Braque, Georges on science   

"Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science."

Brecht, Bertolt on science   

"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all."

Brown, Olympia on science   

"I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one."

Bunting, Basil on science   

"They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work."

Burroughs, William S. on science   

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries."

Bush, Vannevar on science   

"Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance."

Butler, Samuel on science   

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"Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance."

Byron, Lord on science   

"O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?"

Campbell, Thomas on science   

"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."

Carlyle, Thomas on science   

"There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery."

Chandler, Raymond on science   

"The true science and study of man, is man himself."

Charron, Pierre on science   

"Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on science   

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on science   

"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."

Clarke, Arthur C. on science   

"Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?"

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on science   

"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life."

Collingwood, Robin G. on science   

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

Connolly, Cyril on science   

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

Cronenberg, David on science
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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Daumal, Rene on science   

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

Dewey, John on science
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"Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"

Dickinson, Emily on science
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"Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world."

Diderot, Denis on science   

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

Disraeli, Benjamin on science   

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