Scientific Quotes

1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a… — Bill Gates
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons… — Charles Lindbergh
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins. — Roderick Murchison
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,… — Isaac Asimov
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much… — John Herschel
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community… — Thomas Kuhn
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… — Jurgen Habermas
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number… — Charles Kettering
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. — Bertrand Russell
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying… — Thomas Kuhn
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon… — Karl Pearson
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical… — Nevill Francis Mott

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