Science Quotes
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
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There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
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In other words, science and religion occupied two separate spheres; in the pope’s view, Darwin might have explained where the human body came from, but that had nothing to do with the spiritual and divine aspects of human existence.
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Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.
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What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
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Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
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What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
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It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.
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Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.
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There are or is indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
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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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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Science is simply the method we use to try and postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a straightforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena of nature.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way.
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
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Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
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The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
