Science Quotes

A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow

Conscience, Satellite

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

Truth, Last, Error

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen

Made, Wish, Chaos

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce

Truth, May, Find

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann

Heart, Human, Rejection

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir

Truth, Desire, Curiosity

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti

Living, Ourselves, Within

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler

Computers, Together, Next

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
John Charles Polanyi

Good, Used, Dreamers

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
Mike Pence

Legal, Country, Research

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
Donella Meadows

Actually, Percent, Needed

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin

Tests, Witchcraft, Polygraph

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer

Might, Half, Eat

Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. Harburg

Alone, Leave, Atom

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
Dave Parnas

Mean, Anyone, Says

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow

Time, Before, Universe

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Blind, Lame

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

Art, Experience, Beautiful

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

Real, Old, Problems

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein

Living, Wonderful, Earn

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Greatest, Facts, Aim

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Simple, May, Everyone

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

Nothing, Thinking, Whole

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

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