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Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
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- Nov 07, 2020