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Famous Science Quotes

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Funny Science Quotes

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Allen Klein

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Isaac Asimov

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Robert Sheckley

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Arthur Machen

Inspirational Science Quotes

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Honore de Balzac

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

Albert Einstein

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

More Science Quotes

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

Frank Luntz

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Samuel Richardson

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Bertrand Russell

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

Albert Einstein

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

Steve Irwin

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Herbert Spencer

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Baruch Spinoza

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Paul Valery

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

Mike Johanns

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

E. O. Wilson

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Edward Tufte

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Henry Fielding

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Daniel Keys Moran

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

Marshall McLuhan

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Isaac Asimov

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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