Science Quotes

Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Evan Esa

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

Claude T Bissell

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

B. F. Skinne

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spence

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

William Osle

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Marguerite de Valois

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Max Gluckman

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Jeremy Taylo

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

Albert Einstein

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteu

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

Johann von Goethe

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Taylo

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...

Samuel Adams

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 - 12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

Science would be ruined if like sports it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads - By - Choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Benoit Mandelbrot

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)