Science quotes
Alfvén Hannes 1872-1960
As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.
Bernard Claude 1812-1878
Art is I, science is we.
Braque Georges 1882-1963
Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Bronowski Jacob 1908-1974
The Ascent of Man
The essence of science:ask an impetinent question,and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881
On political economy, Latter-Day Pamphlets
The Dismal Science.
Darwin Sir Francis 1848-1925
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Davies Paul
It may be bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a sure path to God and religion.
Dunsany Lord
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
Eddington Sir Arthur 1882-1944
(attributed)
Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
Science, Philosophy and Religion
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Eliot George 1819-1880
Middlemarch
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
Geddes Sir Auckland
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
Hillman Sidney 1887-1946
Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.
Huxley Thomas 1825-1895
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Keller Helen 1880-1968
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.
Keynes John Neville 1852-1949
The Scope and Method of Political Economy
A positive science may be defined as a body of systematized knowledge concerning what is; a normative or regular science a body of systematized knowledge relating to criteria of what ought to be, and concerned therefore with the ideal as distinguished from the actual.
Krutch Joseph Wood 1893-1970
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Leacock Stephen 1869-1944
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Osler Sir William 1849-1919
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Poincaré Henri 1854-1912
Science and Hypothesis
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
The Dunciad
How little, mark! that portion of the ball,
Where, faint at best, the beams of science fall.
Popper Sir Karl 1902-1994
‘The Philosophy of Science'
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Praed W.M. 1802-1839
‘The Talented Man;
Of science and logic he chatters
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I'm sure he's a talented man.
Roux Joseph
Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Rutherford Lord 1871-1937
(attributed)
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
(of Whewell)
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
Spencer Herbert 1820-1903
Education
Science is organized knowledge.
Stackman Elvin
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
Szasz Thomas
The Second Sin ‘Science and Scientism'
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Locksley Hall'
Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point.
Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862
Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
Valentine Alan
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Valéry Paul 1871-1945
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Valéry Paul 1871-1945
Moralités
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. The rest is literature.
Whewell William 1794-1866
Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Success is a science. If you have the conditions, you get the result.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
The Prelude
Science appears but what in truth she is,
Not as our glory and our absolute boast,
But as a succedaneum, and a prop
To our infirmity.