- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.
- First-Rate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
- Loudest
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- Nov 07, 2020
All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020