Science Quotes

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.