Scientific Quotes

1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like… — Max Lerner
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience… — Norbert Wiener
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is… — Jacques Monod
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that… — Karl Pearson
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science… — Wernher von Braun
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. — John B. S. Haldane
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… — Lewis Thomas
I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them:… — Walt Whitman
In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will… — Louis Agassiz
I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but… — Steven Chu
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their… — Wilfred Trotter
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. — Edmund Wilson
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure… — Rajneesh
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. — Henri Matisse
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and… — Max Born
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. — John Bardeen
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did… — Michael Crichton
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not… — Thomas Kuhn
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed… — J. G. Holland
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within… — Louis Agassiz
In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which… — Nevill Francis Mott

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