Quotes about science

"I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction."

Huxley, Thomas H. on science   

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

Huxley, Thomas H. on science   

"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Huxley, Thomas H. on science   

"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."

Huxley, Thomas H. on science   

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

Ibsen, Henrik on science   

"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on science
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"There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment."

James, P. D. on science   

"Man lives for science as well as bread."

James, William on science   

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Kelvin, Lord on science   

"We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."

King Jr. Martin Luther on science   

"For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done."

Kipling, Rudyard on science   

"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."

Klee, Paul on science   

"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."

Koestler, Arthur on science   

"Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are."

Krasel, Cornelius on science   

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

Kraus, Karl on science   

"In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world."

Lamb, Charles on science   

"Science is all metaphor."

Leary, Timothy on science   

"The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism."

Levi, Primo on science   

"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."

Levi-Strauss, Claude on science   

"Science is the systematic classification of experience."

Lewes, George Henry on science   

"When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon."

Lewis, Wyndham on science   

"The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to."

Lewis, Wyndham on science   

"The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on science   

"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on science   

"If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion."

Long, Lazarus on science   

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

Lorenz, Konrad on science   

"Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one."

Lorenz, Konrad on science   

"Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher."

Marquis, Don on science   

"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."

Marx, Karl on science   

"The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

Marx, Karl on science   

"In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality."

Mccarthy, Mary on science   

"There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there."

McDonough, Denny on science   

"The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer."

Mead, Margaret on science   

"From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb."

Milton, John on science   

"Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God."

Mitchell, Maria on science   

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"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof."

Montague, C. E. on science   

"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work."

Neumann, John Von on science   

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Newton, Sir Isaac on science
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"Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on science   

"Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on science