Science Quotes
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As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.
W. H. Auden
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I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Alan Alda
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It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.
Sigmund Freud
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Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.
James Bryant Conant
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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.
Antoine Lavoisier
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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Fernand Braudel
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To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
Albert Einstein
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I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
Alaina Huffman
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Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.
Lady Bird Johnson
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The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.
Arthur Eddington
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.
Ann Druyan
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Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
Harry Houdini
