Science Quotes - Page 6

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Possible And Impossible, Awe And Wonder

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

  Isaac Newton

  Beautiful, God, Powerful

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Conceited

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

  Mark Twain

  Math, Return, Facts

  Life on the Mississippi ch. 17 (1883)

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• Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Religious, Mind

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• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Future, Deep Thought

  Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

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• DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Technology, Dna, Firsts

  "Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1978.

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

  John Dewey

  Lying, Law, Technique

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.15, 谷月社

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• It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled to overbrimming as we are with questions, and naturally talented as we are for the asking of clear questions, and then for us to do nothing about, or worse, to try to suppress the questions.

  Lewis Thomas

  Curiosity, Trying, Asking

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Funny, Sex

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• Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Practice, Molecular Biology, Molecules

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• Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

  Max Planck

  Faith, Temples, Kind

  Where is Science Going? epilogue (1932)

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• In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

  Paul Dirac

  Opposites, People, Poetry

  "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists". Book by by Robert Jungk, as translated by James Cleugh, p. 22, 1958.

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• My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Mother, Children, School

  "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

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• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.

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• The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.

  Ira Remsen

  Honesty, Believe, Teaching

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• Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

  Johannes Kepler

  Nature, Simplicity, Use

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, (p. 98), 1920.

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• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Success, Faith, Motivation

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• Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

  Francois Rabelais

  Soul, Perdition, Conscience

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• True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

  Claude Bernard

  Ignorance, Doubt, Refrain

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. VII

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• [Science is] the desire to know causes.

  William Hazlitt

  Desire, Causes, Knows

  1829 In The Atlas, 15 Feb.

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• There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Skepticism, Questioning Beliefs, Scientific Truth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.76, e-artnow

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• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Pain, Fear

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

  Claude Bernard

  Imagination, Laboratory, Overcoat

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