1,011 Quotes Regarding Science


Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
Anna Torv

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
Gary Bauer

In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.
Lord Kelvin

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
Laurel Clark

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
Donald Knuth

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
Donald Knuth

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
Ridley Scott

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Stephen Jay Gould

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
Stephen Jay Gould

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
Stephen Jay Gould

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Stephen Jay Gould

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Barry Commoner

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
Barry Commoner

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Edward Thorndike

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
Patricia Cornwell

Science is always inquiring.
Thabo Mbeki

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
Paul Nurse

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
Paul Nurse