Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Science sayings and Science Quotes - Chapter 3
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
There is no complete theory of anything.
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
One can not impede scientific progress.
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.
Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

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