Science Quotes · Page 165

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

— Albert Einstein

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

— Martin Lewis Perl

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

— Allen Tate

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

— Richard P. Feynman

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

— George R. R. Martin

I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

— Robert Reed

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

— Saul Perlmutter

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in…

— Albert Einstein

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good…

— Immanuel Kant

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait…

— C. S. Lewis

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…

— William Kingdon Clifford

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

— Henri Poincare

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

— George Coyne

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French,…

— Margaret Atwood

'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“As soon as you say, 'I'm going to use the legal system to impose my will on you,' you're buying into a…

— Dan Fagin

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part…

— Ernst Haeckel

“Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those…

— Arthur R. Jensen

Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of…

— Dean H. Kenyon

“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for…

— Sinclair Lewis

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

— Erwin Chargaff

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that…

— William Shakespeare

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

— Helena Christensen

“To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.”

— Stuart Sutherland

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

— Richard Dawkins

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

— Richard J. Roberts

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

— Israel Gelfand

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

— Frederik Pohl

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

— Susan Hockfield

The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

— Albert Einstein

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

— Mario Bunge

“Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.”

— Anne Rice