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

science

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. 32 other quotes from William Blake

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

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. 18 thoughts from Baruch Spinoza

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

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. 4 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 more 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 thoughts from Carl Sagan

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

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

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

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

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

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. 46 more wisdom & wit 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 more wisdom & wit from Johan Huizinga

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

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

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

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. 4 other 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Paul Klee

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. 4 sayings 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 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. 67 thoughts 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 more quotes from Edouard Manet

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

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

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. 20 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 thoughts from Samuel Alexander

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

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

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

Science is but an image of the truth. 67 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 more thoughts 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 views 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 quotes from Isaac Asimov

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. 19 more sayings 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 more sayings 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 other quotes from Isaac Newton

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

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

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

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. 6 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Theodore Sturgeon

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

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

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. 5 quotes 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 sayings from Alfred North Whitehead

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. 2 quotes 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 views from Theodore Sturgeon

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

Science without conscience is the death of the soul. 13 views 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 sayings 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 quotes from Henry Adams

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

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

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. 45 other 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 other quotes 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 quotes 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 sayings from Josef Albers

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. 11 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Hugh Walpole

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. 3 thoughts 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 sayings from Albert Einstein

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

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

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 3 sayings from Wernher von Braun

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

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

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher. 105 views 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 thoughts from Albert Einstein

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

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

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

A satellite has no conscience. 3 quotes 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 other quotes from Alan Perlis

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. 5 views 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 other wisdom & wit from Imogen Cunningham

I've lost my faith in science. 21 more sayings 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 sayings from Herbert Spencer

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. 5 more wisdom & wit from Henri Poincare

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. 5 more quotes 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 other quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Politics is not an exact science. 16 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 thoughts 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 more quotes from Henri Poincare

Science is facts. 5 more wisdom & wit from Henri Poincare

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

Science is organized knowledge. 20 quotes from Herbert Spencer

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

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

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

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

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive. 7 quotes 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 views 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 quotes from Imogen Cunningham

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

Art is science made clear. 10 views from Wilson Mizner

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

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

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

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. 33 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

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

I hate science fiction. 22 views from James Dyson

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. 135 other sayings 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 other quotes 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 more 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 other views 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 sayings from Bertrand Russell

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

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. 33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

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

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. 33 other views 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 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. 4 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

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

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. 33 more thoughts 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 quotes 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 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 views from Kenneth L. Pike

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

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. 4 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from Norman Cousins

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

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

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. 9 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Helen Keller

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. 59 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Ashley Montagu

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. 58 other 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 sayings 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 more thoughts 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 more sayings 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 other sayings from Mary Baker Eddy

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. 7 sayings 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 quotes from Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions. 7 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 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. 45 quotes 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 other quotes from William Bernbach

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. 5 thoughts 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 more 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 quotes from Theodore Parker

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. 4 more quotes 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 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson

We especially need imagination in science. 8 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Maria Montessori

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

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. 60 more sayings from H. L. Mencken

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. 6 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Swami Sivananda

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

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

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

Society lives by faith, and develops by science. 24 sayings 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 quotes from Cyril Connolly

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. 12 quotes 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 thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit from Emily Post

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

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

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

Science is all metaphor. 6 views from Timothy Leary

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

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

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result. 100 quotes 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 quotes from A. J. Liebling

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. 9 wisdom & wit from Niels Bohr