Science Quotes

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Ernest Rutherford
- Science
- Gentleman
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

George Bernard Shaw

You brain does its best when it is doing a task it can do well. That's basic brain science.

Edward Hallowell
- Science
- Brain
- Task
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

George Julius Poulett Scrope
So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.

Ben Aaronovitch
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

James Anthony Froude
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Song
- Science
- Discovery
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

J. G. Holland
- Men
- Science
- Discovery