Quotes on “science”

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.