Science Quotes

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by ...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced t...

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, o...

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from th...

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I s...

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nat...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings wh...

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the s...

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by l...

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, en...

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence w...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variet...

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more diffi...

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed int...

If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s...

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of...

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on ...

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, an...

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings wh...

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been forme...

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data th...

The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness. The aggregate voice is a defiant prayer. B...

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was suffic...

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes s...

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, ...

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire ...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

It may be asked how I know that there are any Reals. If this hypothesis is the sole support of my me...

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I wou...

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when languag...

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute...

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand ...

Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe wor...

As for the prayers, I suppose they can’t hurt. I’ve never found much good in them, I’ll confess that...

Last century’s magic is this year’s science.

MakeNew FrNdS But Keep D oLd , One iS silVerThe Other is Gold.

... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in ...

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function...

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human s...

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's ...

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So man...

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions,...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearf...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordin...

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re...

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the p...

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decim...

Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistake...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's...

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so ove...

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the ...

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...

Eureka!"s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer ...

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They ...

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, wher...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put th...

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well...

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each o...

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that sci...

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have...

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks...

For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking mi...

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in ...

God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big ...

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matt...

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesu...

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches ...

Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I'll never understand God.My heart tells me I'm not...