Scientific Quotes

1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the… — Pope John Paul II
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,… — John F. Kennedy
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without… — John Dewey
All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side. — Armand Trousseau
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will… — Julian Huxley
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence… — Bruce Alberts
The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of… — Unknown Author
Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive… — Derek J. de Solla Price
[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important… — Richard Willstatter
We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to… — Unknown Author
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a… — Henry David Thoreau
It's important to understand that an atheist is someone who believes the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything. Some fundamental atheists will deny this by… — Ray Comfort
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I… — Albert Einstein
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the… — John Bertram Phillips
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. — Johannes Kepler
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in… — Ernest Renan
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and… — Carl Sagan
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,… — Carl Sagan
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful… — Mike Johanns
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its… — Jean Piaget
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production… — Subhas Chandra Bose

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