Quotes about science




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"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    Share


"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    Share

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

Huxley, Thomas H. on science    Share

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

Huxley, Thomas H. on science    Share

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

Ibsen, Henrik on science    Share

"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    Share

"Man lives for science as well as bread."

James, William on science    Share

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Kelvin, Lord on science    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Klee, Paul on science    Share

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

Koestler, Arthur on science    Share

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

Krasel, Cornelius on science    Share

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

Kraus, Karl on science    Share

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

Lamb, Charles on science    Share

"Science is all metaphor."

Leary, Timothy on science    Share

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

Levi-Strauss, Claude on science    Share

"Science is the systematic classification of experience."

Lewes, George Henry on science    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Long, Lazarus on science    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Marquis, Don on science    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Mccarthy, Mary on science    Share

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

McDonough, Denny on science    Share

"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    Share

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

Mitchell, Maria on science    Share

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

Montague, C. E. on science    Share

"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    Share

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

Parkhurst, Charles H. on science    Share

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