Quotes
Quotes about Science
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini.
Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
Money can't buy real friendshipâfriendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscienceâsquare dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good healthâright living is the secret. Money can't buy happinessâhappiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the treesâthese are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peaceâpeace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good characterâgood character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
