Science Quotes

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Best, Sense, Common

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.
Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Humanity, Thought

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Beautiful, Fact

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell

Best, Lost, Scientific

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

Knowledge, Ignorance, Father

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

Good, Morning, Pet

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

Great, Enthusiasm, Poison

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow

Opinion, Facts, Stronger

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature, Through, Trying

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Beautiful, Sense, Fact

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White

Nothing, Space, View

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Few

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith

Lose, Adventure, Number

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

Human, Between, Ideas

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

Great, Advance, Audacity

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

High, Space, Priority

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hate, End, Worth

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sense, Common, Ground

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

Impossible, Wrong, Possible

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker

Work, Lost, Down

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine

Cannot, Hungry, Statistics

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Technology, Lives, Memory

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Rather, Scientist, Scientists

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein

Century, Believed, Nineteenth

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis

God, Enough, Year

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