Quotes on “science”

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

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.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.