SCIENCE QUOTES
quotations about science
A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, January 31, 2012
Science and Religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
DAN BROWN
Angels & Demons
Without science, everything is a miracle.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
A Universe from Nothing
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Foundation
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
VICTOR J. STENGER
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
"The Accidental Universe: Science's Crisis of Faith", Harper's Magazine, December 2011
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
WALTER LIPPMANN
A Preface to Morals
Science is magic that works.
KURT VONNEGUT
Cat's Cradle
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Real Time with Bill Maher, February 4, 2011
Let science extend the domain of actual knowledge, and lay bare as it may the secrets of the material world. It only exposes more and more the proportions of the great cathedral, and shows us the lamps of God's glory, and the infinite recesses of his love. It only wafts us on through the ever-rolling harmonies of the universe, until we pause before that awful veil of mystery in which he hides the essence of his being and the counsels of his thought.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver ... in the end, the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What I Believe
Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Winner
Science is truth with her wings clipped.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
DON DELILLO
White Noise
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINS
afterward, A Universe from Nothing
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Journal of the Franklin Institute, March 1936
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
CARL SAGAN
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
JEAN ROSTAND
Thoughts of a Biologist
People keep saying "science doesn't know everything!" Well, science "knows" it doesn't know everything; otherwise it would stop.
DARA O BRIAIN
Dara O Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal