Science Quotes - page 3

Philosophy is the true mother of science. (Cicero)
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. View quote
Aleister Crowley
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. View quote
Donald Knuth
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. View quote
Stephen Hawking
People who love science fiction really do love sex. View quote
Susie Bright
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. View quote
John Ruskin
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
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. View quote
John Glenn
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. View quote
Paul Valéry
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. View quote
Claude Bernard
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. View quote
Poul Anderson
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. View quote
Howard H. Aiken
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. (Oscar Wilde)
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. View quote
David Brin
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. View quote
Will Durant
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. View quote
Bertrand Russell