Scientific Quotes

1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. — Albert Einstein
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for… — Wolfgang Pauli
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt… — Gian-Carlo Rota
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. — Paul Dirac
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,… — Richard P. Feynman
I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution - but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had… — Ken Ham
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.… — Richard Dawkins
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is… — George Will
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural… — John Dewey
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of… — Arthur C. Clarke
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and… — Wernher von Braun
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the… — Swami Vivekananda

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