Science Quotes

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

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.