Science Quotes

8871 Science quotes by 3328 unique authors

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. — Russell Baker
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. — Cleveland Abbe
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James A. Baldwin
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the… — Ansel Adams
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages,… — J. G. Ballard
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly… — Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the… — Douglas Adams
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. — Benjamin Banneker
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to… — Robert Barclay
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. — Edward Abbey
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. — Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. — Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon. — Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that… — Christiaan Barnard
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the… — Amelia Barr
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. — Edward Abbey
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry

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