Science Quotes

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

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

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

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!

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.