Top 1000 Science Quotes & Sayings

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

We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

Science is magic that works.

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

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don't expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that's a great loss.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

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

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and brave and prepared was more important than being cute or cheerful or knowing the right thing to say. And that's what science fiction and fantasy gave me.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will - the coders will get that - for this new information, because I didn't have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.

In 1968 when I was in high school I built a four-foot-tall remote control robot with pneumatic cylinders that operated his hands. My robot won first place at a science competition at the University of Alabama where my high school was the only African-American school represented. That was a huge moral victory.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Science grows like a weed every year.

While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became a symbol. Late capitalism can't produce many new ideas any more, but it can reliably deliver technological upgrades. But 'Star Wars' didn't really belong to the science fiction genre any way.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.