Scientific Quotes

1781 Scientific quotes by 1069 unique authors

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will… — Cynthia Tucker
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand… — Isaac Asimov
The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake. — Louis Agassiz
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society… — John Polkinghorne
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the… — Phillip E. Johnson
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists… — Phillip E. Johnson
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like… — Richard Dawkins
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts… — Donald Woods Winnicott
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other… — Rajneesh
Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and… — Prince Charles
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. — Floyd E. Bloom
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than… — Unknown Author
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet. — Wilder Penfield
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at… — Unknown Author
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to… — Scott Lively
Most of the people...they say gays are born that way and it has been...proven...That is a lie. That's what's called a lie. It is not… — Scott Lively
If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything… — Scott Lively
But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes… — Justus von Liebig
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy]. — Edward Victor Appleton
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either… — Bronislaw Malinowski
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the… — Justus von Liebig
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics,… — Adolphe Quetelet

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