Science Quotes

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Albert Einstein

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Unknown

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel C. Florman

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Conscience is the voice of the soul.

Polish Prove

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 - 12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

Albert Einstein

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)

Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

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.

Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky, in a television interview

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

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

Thomas Huxley

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.

Nancy Banks - Smith

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

Johann von Goethe

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas H. Huxley

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

Albert Szent - Gyorgyi

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas H. Huxley

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.

H. A. Kramers

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Marguerite de Valois

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.

William A. Smith, 1908

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde