Natural Science Quotes

• A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  Alan Perlis

  Believe, Science, Technology

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

  Werner Heisenberg

  Doe, Natural

  1959 Physics and Philosophy.

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• Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Science, Experience, Scientific Method

  The Gods

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Thinking, Fairy Tale, Scientist

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

  Max Planck

  God, Science, Views

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Knowledge, Learning, Science

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

  Roger Bacon

  People, Brain, Facts

  1267 OpusMajus, pt.4, ch.1 (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Ignorance, Knowledge

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

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• Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Reality, Facts

  1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Math, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

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• When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

  Albert Hofmann

  Knowledge, Miracle, Psychedelic

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

  Francis Darwin

  Business, Science, Men

  Eugenics Review, Apr. 1914

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• The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Assumption, Be Confident, Natural

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• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

  Adam Smith

  Science, Flames, Enthusiasm

  The Wealth of Nations Bk V, Ch. 1

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• Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Character, Errors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.346, Ravenio Books

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• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Native American, Facts, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  Karl Marx

  Time, Science, Men

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”, Intl Pub

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• But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Powerful, Men, Objectivity

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• Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

  William Blake

  Death, Art, Science

  William Blake (1968). “William Blake. Textes choisis et presentes par Francis Leaud”

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

  Ronald Fisher

  Math, Degrees, Statistics

  "Evolution in Action". Book by Julian S. Huxley, 1953.

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• The gift of truth excels all other gifts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Truth, Philosophy

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Learning, Humility

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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