Science Quotes - Page 5

• Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

  Yann Martel

  Baseball, Sex, Drinking

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Experience, Scientific Method, Evolution

  The Gods

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• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Imagination, May

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

  Bertrand Russell

  May, Ethics, Achieve

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Fiction, Sticks

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Lying, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Power, Errors, Discovery

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Single Relationship, Thrive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Math, Needs, Done

  Quoted in N.T. Bailey's The Mathematical Approach to Biology and Medicine Chapter 2 (p. 23)

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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

  Adam Smith

  Flames, Enthusiasm, Superstitions

  The Wealth of Nations Bk V, Ch. 1

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• It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

  Henri Poincare

  Creativity, Intuition, Instinct

  "Atlas of the Poetic Continent: Pathways in Ecological Citizenship". Book by Shelley Sacks, Wolfgang Zumdick, p. 60, 2013.

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• I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Nature, Simple

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• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Wernher von Braun

  Business, Space, Promise

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961

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• More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

  Robert A. Baker

  Reality, Competition, Ridiculous

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• The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.

  Lewis Thomas

  Truth, Ignorance, Ignorant

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

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• Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Degrees, Would Be, Unreasonable

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• When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

  Thucydides

  Men, Logic, Reason

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• And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

  Anaxagoras

  Numbers, Would Be, Should

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• Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.

  Carlo Rubbia

  Art, Reality, Discovery

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• There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

  William James

  Belief, Enough, Absurd

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• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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• It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Views, Islam, Fundamentals

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• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Education, Teaching

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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