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"395 Science Quotes

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Clearly Deeply Insane Instead
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

After Build Equation Eventually
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Branches Currents Dealing Electrical
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

Science Useful Accentuate Inequalities
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Become Core Critics Crucial
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Affected Being Distance Engine
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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
Great moments Science Time Money
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Child Scientist Touch You
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Anything AnythingIsPossible Begins Best
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If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
Analysis Never Salt Scientist
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When you invest in science and begin to develop your own vaccines and dictate the pace, those "racists" will stop disrespecting you and think that your only contribution is to be used as guinea pigs.

Invest Science Racist Vaccines
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Because Big Connects Everything
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Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Economic Science Objective Scientific
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Afterwards Be Kind Dark Day
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
Biological Experiments First France
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.

Chemical Differs Elements Less
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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world

Adventure Allow Also Any
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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

Considered Direct Discovered Hospitals
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Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
Census Effective EffectiveWay Getting
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I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

Married Nine Sober Soon
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Those who don’t believe in Science herd the society to path of physical self destruction; Those who are addicted and obsessed with science pushed the society to the lane of spiritual self destruction.

Science Society Obsessed Spiritual
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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

About Among Anything Certain
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We are a very, very unusual species.

Species Unusual Very
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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Aid Fine Get Metaphors
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Could Coverage Improved Item
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

About Among Argue Critics
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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Learned May Rote Sciences
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Air Facts Fly Never
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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Cancer Duties Everyone Fraud
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

Believe Complicated Explained I Believe
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Bias Dogma Effort Involves
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Because Belongs Carries Country
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Applications Applied Only Science
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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Applications Applied Bears Bound
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Because Belongs Country Humanity
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Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Because Carries First Furthest
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

My choice Rest Scientific theory Observation
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Science Important thing Modify Advances
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Again Awaken Him Man
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Science Existence Mankind Power
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

About Doing Dream Engineers
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New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

New discoveries Science Create Adventure
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Block Creates Itself Man
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