Science Quotes

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Science grows like a weed every year.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.