Science Quotes

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

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

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.