Science Quotes

8871 Science quotes by 3328 unique authors

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their… — Edmund Burke
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced. — Herbert Spencer
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and… — Charles Lindbergh
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,… — Adolf Hitler
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science. — Hans Reichenbach
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. — Aristotle
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord. — Khalil Gibran
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not. — William James
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions. — Winston Churchill
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. — Camille Paglia
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim

Who Wrote These Science Quotes

3,328 authors contributed a total of 8,871 Science Quotes, led by these top contributors: