Science Quotes

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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is… — Claude Bernard
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he… — Robin G. Collingwood
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. — Tobias Smollett
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes… — G. H. Hardy
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. — Alfred North Whitehead
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any… — Jonathan Swift
All science requires mathematics. — Roger Bacon
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical… — Nevill Francis Mott
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins. — Oliver Goldsmith
Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia,… — Dave Barry
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's… — Robert Frost
And what is impossible to science? — Friedrich Engels
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark
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
As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the… — John F. Kennedy
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Basic scientific research is scientific capital. — Vannevar Bush

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