Science Quotes
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.
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So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual’s ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
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I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most important and peculiar of your advantages. It is not by foreign conquests chiefly that you are become great, but by a conquest of nature in your own country.
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I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.
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My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
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There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
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In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
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I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.
