Science Quotes

8871 Science quotes by 3328 unique authors

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends. — A.C. Grayling
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. — Ernst Mach
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. — John Ruskin
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. — Kurt Vonnegut
Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The… — Werner Heisenberg
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it. — Arthur Balfour
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. — Galileo Galilei
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive. — James Anthony Froude
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We… — Miguel de Unamuno
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say,… — Miguel de Unamuno
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to… — Ayn Rand
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the… — Alexander Herzen
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding… — Herbert Spencer
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action. — Talcott Parsons
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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