Science Quotes
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You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, an integrity that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
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Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.
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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
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I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.
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I believe in the science. When you think about GMOs, I spend a lot of time on them, and I understand them. But I understand that my telling people on faith may not carry the day. They need to see it, understand it, and we need to arm them with facts, educate them, and let them make their choices.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
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I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.
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God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.
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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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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
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I predict the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.
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There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?
