Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

science

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. 8 quotes from Stephen Leacock

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. 30 more quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology. 11 more quotes from Rebecca West

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. 5 more wisdom & wit from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. 46 quotes from George Santayana

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. 3 other quotes from Johan Huizinga

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. 68 more thoughts from Samuel Butler

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. 2 wisdom & wit from Werner Heisenberg

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. 3 other quotes from Charles Babbage

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. 4 quotes from Louis Pasteur

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. 68 views from Samuel Butler

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. 3 more wisdom & wit from Paul Klee

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. 4 more wisdom & wit from Louis Pasteur

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. 58 more thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. 14 quotes from Heinrich Heine

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. 2 quotes from Edward Sapir

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. 6 more quotes from Evan Esar

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. 67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. 3 quotes from Edouard Manet

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. 14 other quotes from Stendhal

Man lives for science as well as bread. 40 quotes from William James

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. 20 more views from Thomas Aquinas

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. 6 quotes from Jacob Bronowski

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. 3 more views from Samuel Alexander

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. 16 wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science is but an image of the truth. 67 other thoughts from Francis Bacon

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. 6 quotes from Jacob Bronowski

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' 16 quotes from Isaac Asimov

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. 6 thoughts from Jacob Bronowski

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 16 thoughts from Isaac Asimov

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. 19 wisdom & wit from Anton Chekhov

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. 16 quotes from Isaac Asimov

There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. 10 wisdom & wit from Edward Abbey

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. 5 quotes from Isaac Newton

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' 21 quotes from W. H. Auden

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. 25 views from Simone Weil

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. 3 more quotes from Linus Pauling

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. 6 quotes from Charles Lindbergh

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. 5 sayings from Theodore Sturgeon

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. 7 quotes from Galileo Galilei

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. 5 other sayings from Theodore Sturgeon

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. 5 other wisdom & wit from Amy Lowell

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. 19 more quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. 2 sayings from Arthur Keith

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. 9 more quotes from Howard Nemerov

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. 5 other quotes from Andre Breton

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. 5 other thoughts from Theodore Sturgeon

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science. 14 other views from Bertolt Brecht

Science without conscience is the death of the soul. 13 sayings from Francois Rabelais

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. 3 quotes from Jules Verne

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. 22 more wisdom & wit from Henry Adams

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. 4 wisdom & wit from George Meredith

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. 31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. 45 views from John Ruskin

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. 2 sayings from Clyde Tombaugh

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. 21 sayings from W. H. Auden

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. 3 more wisdom & wit from Josef Albers

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. 11 more wisdom & wit from Rene Descartes

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. 2 quotes from Robert Quillen

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. 2 sayings from Hugh Walpole

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. 3 more sayings from Wernher von Braun

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong. 105 more thoughts from Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 3 more wisdom & wit from Wernher von Braun

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. 105 views from Albert Einstein

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. 6 views from Luther Burbank

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. 2 more views from Wilhelm Reich

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. 16 more quotes from Erich Fromm

The man of science is a poor philosopher. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. 105 more sayings from Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. 3 quotes from Wernher von Braun

Winning is the science of being totally prepared. 4 quotes from George Allen, Sr.

A satellite has no conscience. 3 wisdom & wit from Edward R. Murrow

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. 7 wisdom & wit from Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. 7 wisdom & wit from Alan Perlis

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. 5 thoughts from Henry Fielding

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. 16 wisdom & wit from David Hume

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. 2 quotes from Imogen Cunningham

I've lost my faith in science. 21 quotes from Bette Davis

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. 17 quotes from John Burroughs

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. 20 quotes from Herbert Spencer

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. 5 quotes from Henri Poincare

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. 5 more sayings from Henri Poincare

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. 9 more views from Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nature engenders the science of painting. 6 more thoughts from Robert Delaunay

Politics is not an exact science. 16 other quotes from Otto von Bismarck

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. 17 sayings from John Burroughs

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. 5 sayings from Henri Poincare

Science is facts. 5 other quotes from Henri Poincare

Science is not addressed to poets. 9 other quotes from George Henry Lewes

Science is organized knowledge. 20 quotes from Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. 13 more quotes from Immanuel Kant

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. 8 views from Karl Kraus

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. 8 other thoughts from Thomas Hobbes

Science is the systematic classification of experience. 9 views from George Henry Lewes

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive. 7 views from James Anthony Froude

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. 3 wisdom & wit from Carl Friedrich Gauss

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. 2 quotes from Max Planck

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. 2 wisdom & wit from Imogen Cunningham

Art is made to disturb, science reassures. 2 views from Georges Braque

Art is science made clear. 10 sayings from Wilson Mizner

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. 33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. 22 quotes from James Dyson

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. 33 more views from Thomas Huxley

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate science fiction. 22 other thoughts from James Dyson

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. 22 wisdom & wit from James Dyson

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. 33 more quotes from Thomas Huxley

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. 43 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. 33 sayings from Thomas Huxley

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. 33 quotes from Thomas Huxley

Science does not know its debt to imagination. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. 33 quotes from Thomas Huxley

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. 52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. 33 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. 33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. 33 other views from Thomas Huxley

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. 33 quotes from Thomas Huxley

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. 4 quotes from Gregory Bateson

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. 45 other thoughts from Bertrand Russell

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. 33 sayings from Thomas Huxley

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. 33 quotes from Thomas Huxley

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. 22 thoughts from James Dyson

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. 59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. 4 quotes from Kenneth L. Pike

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. 6 other quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. 4 thoughts from Mary McCarthy

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. 6 views from Ashley Montagu

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. 7 quotes from Sydney Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. 9 other thoughts from Adam Smith

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. 31 sayings from Helen Keller

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. 6 views from Ashley Montagu

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

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. 6 more thoughts from Jacques Yves Cousteau

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Art is I science is we. 7 other views from Claude Bernard

Experimentation is an active science. 7 quotes from Claude Bernard

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. 19 thoughts from E. B. White

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. 8 views from Mary Baker Eddy

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. 7 more thoughts from John Calvin

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. 11 quotes from William Osler

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. 7 views from Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions. 7 other sayings from Claude Bernard

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. 45 more wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. 6 other sayings from Karl Popper

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. 6 quotes from Karl Popper

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. 45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. 27 other quotes from Dave Barry

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. 5 sayings from William Bernbach

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. 5 views from William Bernbach

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. 4 wisdom & wit from Edward Thorndike

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. 20 other quotes from Herbert Hoover

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. 11 wisdom & wit from Charles Kettering

Politics is the science of urgencies. 2 wisdom & wit from Theodore Parker

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. 4 more thoughts from Edward Thorndike

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. 2 quotes from H. P. Blavatsky

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. 22 more quotes from Samuel Richardson

We especially need imagination in science. 8 more wisdom & wit from Maria Mitchell

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. 5 more wisdom & wit from Maria Montessori

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. 2 other quotes from Ivan Pavlov

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. 60 other wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. 6 sayings from Francis Parker Yockey

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. 7 quotes from Swami Sivananda

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. 2 quotes from Arthur Holly Compton

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. 2 other sayings from Arthur Young

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. 12 more quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

Society lives by faith, and develops by science. 24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. 15 more wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. 12 other wisdom & wit from Miguel de Unamuno

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. 9 quotes from John Dewey

History is the science of things which are not repeated. 16 views from Paul Valery

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. 13 quotes from Jean Rostand

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. 2 quotes from Emily Post

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. 3 views from Henri Bergson

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. 13 quotes from Jean Rostand

Science is all metaphor. 6 sayings from Timothy Leary

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. 4 views from Aleister Crowley

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. 16 more quotes from Paul Valery

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result. 100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. 8 sayings from Lewis Mumford

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. 4 more sayings from A. J. Liebling

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. 9 more sayings from Niels Bohr

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. 32 wisdom & wit from William Blake

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. 18 other wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. 22 other thoughts from Jimi Hendrix

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. 4 views from Marie Curie

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. 2 more quotes from Konrad Lorenz

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. 25 other quotes from Will Durant

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. 9 other sayings from Carl Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. 9 quotes from Carl Sagan

There are no shortcuts in evolution. 7 quotes from Louis D. Brandeis

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. 9 views from Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. 9 thoughts from Carl Sagan