Quotes
Quotes about Science
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]
While bright-eyed science watches round.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.
The science of fools with long memories.
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
Science is organised knowledge.
