Science Quotes

• This is an honour that reflects the quality of science supported by the Medical Research Council, in particular at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. In my case, credit should go to the numerous dedicated postdocs, students, associates and colleagues who made crucial contributions to the work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Science
  • Quality

• Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Goals
  • Made
  • Practical

• From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • History
  • Nature
  • Universe

• This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Knowledge
  • Question
  • Technology

• Nobody, I suppose, could devote many years to the study of chemical kinetics without being deeply conscious of the fascination of time and change: this is something that goes outside science into poetry; but science, subject to the rigid necessity of always seeking closer approximations to the truth, itself contains many poetical elements.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Chemical

• I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love science-fiction.

  

  Jessica Raine
  • Future
  • Comedy
  • Theatre

• If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Authority
  • Judgement
  • Hypothesis

• You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Science

• Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Live
  • Science
  • Alone

• It is a curious paradox that several of the greatest and most creative spirits in science, after achieving important discoveries by following their unfettered imaginations, were in their later years obsessed with reductionist philosophy and as a result became sterile. Hilbert was a prime example of this paradox. Einstein was another.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Important
  • Science

• There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

  

  Charles H. Townes
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Science

• Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Science
  • Expert
  • Blogs

• I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Political
  • Knowledge

• You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Language
  • Looks

• A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Law
  • Organization
  • Function

• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Science

• When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Science
  • Study

• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  

  John Desmond Bernal
  • Long
  • Science

• It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence
  • Ignorance

• The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Long
  • History

• To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • May
  • Science
  • Spirit

• My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Star

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