Famous Science Quotes
Science is but an image of the truth.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
Experience by itself is not science.
