Top 100 For Science Quotes
#1. I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.
Daniela Ruah
#2. Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.
Ellen Stofan
#3. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine
#4. [Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science - where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.
Andrew Dickson White
#6. The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
#7. Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
Stephen Baxter
#8. Not only for science, but for any kind of research work and studies--isolation, pure ambience, and peace of mind is a must. Urban ambience is full of destructions and everyday's cacophony further hampers the research aptitude of a student.
Bhaskar Sharma
#9. In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.
Ann Druyan
#10. The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It's time for science to examine the many facets of the soul. The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.
Suzy Kassem
#11. While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Harold E. Varmus
#13. I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.
Craig Venter
#14. We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
Paul Kurtz
#15. From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
Joseph Rotblat
#16. It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Jean Rostand
#17. [The Center for Science in the Public Interest forced] PepsiCo to change the labeling of its Tropicana Peach Papaya Juice to reflect ... that it has neither peaches nor papaya and is not a juice.
Michael Moss
#18. The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor - the spirit of an army - is a problem for science.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
Teller
#20. For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
Stephen Hawking
#21. Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#22. I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
-GLaDOS, Portal 2 trailer
Valve
#23. So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
Johannes Kepler
#24. If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Melvin Calvin
#25. One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.
Karl Marx
#26. As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
Louise Slaughter
#27. The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon landings, the ultimate particles of the physicist and the depths of astronomical space.
Steven Rose
#28. Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Aubrey De Grey
#29. I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. Christian Science ... is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#31. The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.
Aldous Huxley
#32. All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
Mary Roach
#33. But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.
Jody Lynn Nye
#34. For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
Matthew Arnold
#35. Space, man, have you no respect for science?
Isaac Asimov
#36. Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.
Patricia Churchland
#37. Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
Jeff Bezos
#39. She picked up a slice of Victoria Sponge, broke it into large pieces and tossed them in their direction. I hadn't had any yet, and could not suppress a small whimper. 'It's for science, Director,' she said. 'We must all make sacrifices.
Jodi Taylor
#40. Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
Rudolf Virchow
#41. Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did it for Science.
Mira Grant
#42. Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.
Charles Babbage
#44. We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
Jacque Fresco
#45. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
George Orwell
#46. Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.
Stephen Kiernan
#47. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#48. There is no substitute for science communication to the public and policy makers.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
Cynthia Kenyon
#50. I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.
Sonya Walger
#51. Renan, Bennet and Ingersol are not haters of truth. Rather may it be said, they hate counterfeits and are indignant at the assumptions of apostate Christendom. In their impetuosity they have rushed into the other extreme, and demand for science more than she can rightly claim.
Anonymous
#52. I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.
Edward Einhorn
#53. If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.
Ingrid Newkirk
#54. Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.
Tim Wu
#55. The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious.
African Spir
#56. Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.
John Scalzi
#57. Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
David Chalmers
#58. Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.
Gail Carriger
#59. For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
Bruce Lipton
#60. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.
Mira Grant
#61. Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman
#62. It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.
Maude Royden
#63. I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.
Dallas Campbell
#64. There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
Rudolf Virchow
#65. I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.
George Meyer
#66. Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
Bill Nye
#67. What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
#69. If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
Freeman Dyson
#70. For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Charles Kingsley
#71. What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?
David Pogue
#72. No real social change has ever been
brought about without a revolution -
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment,
for science, for religious, political, and
economic liberty, emanates from the minority,
and not from the mass.
Emma Goldman
#73. It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state ...
James Clerk Maxwell
#74. Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
John F. Kennedy
#75. For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.
Hal Duncan
#76. It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.
Matt Smith
#77. We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.
Joe Dispenza
#78. Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived.
Andrei Platonov
#79. Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.
Marie Brennan
#80. I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.
Joshua Lederberg
#81. Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
Charles Babbage
#83. What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
#84. I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
Joseph Conrad
#85. I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.
Steven Pinker
#86. As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#87. Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.
Carl Sagan
#88. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
Mikhail Bakunin
#89. Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#90. Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
Aubrey De Grey
#91. Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening - here Orcutt chuckled - it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.
William H Gass
#93. The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
Cesar Pelli
#94. Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#95. I remember watching Morin walk away from me, the endearing gait and the butt that got lubed for science, and thinking, 'Oh my god, they're just people.
Mary Roach
#96. I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
Stephen Hawking
#97. Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.
Eric Mazur
#98. Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.
Doug Casey
#99. Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
Carl Sagan
#100. Politicians know that if they fail to engage with the gay community, and fail to develop coherent positions on the issues that concern them, they risk punishment at the ballot box. If we can do that for science, we will have made an outstanding start.
Mark Henderson
