Science Quotes

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

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.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth…

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

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 an…

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does no…

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.