Quotes About Science Facts

#1. We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Charles Babbage

#4. The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no such principles of interpretation with its own bosom.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Mary Roach

#6. The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Isaac Asimov

#7. The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Claude Bernard

#8. Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Blake Edwards

#9. The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Arthur Kornberg

#10. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar

#11. The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#12. I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

#13. I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Charles Darwin

#14. What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

George Santayana

#15. We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Antoine Lavoisier

#16. Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#17. In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

Vissarion Belinsky

#18. Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

#19. You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

Forrest Carr

#20. Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap

Chet Raymo

#21. Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Barack Obama

#22. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

David Zaslav

#23. What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

Annie Besant

#24. We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.

William R. Brody

#25. Facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.

Neal Shusterman

#26. Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Malcolm Forbes

#27. The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

George Eliot

#29. Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

Ann Coulter

#30. If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Eric Metaxas

#31. Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Gene Wolfe

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

Jules Verne

#33. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Natalie Angier

#34. Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Charles Darwin

#35. But what are facts, really, except things we've already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

Kathryn Reiss

#36. The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#37. I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

Giovanni Arduino

#38. Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

#39. Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

Peter Frase

#40. Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Douglas Hofstadter

#41. In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk ... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

#42. The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

Vannoccio Biringuccio

#43. In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary McCarthy

#44. Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone is welcome to go on sharing Quine's aesthetic appreciation of deserts, but we think the facts now suggest that we must reconcile ourselves to life in the rainforest.

Anonymous

#45. Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Claude Bernard

#46. When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

Apostolos Doxiadis

#47. Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

John Ruskin

#48. We should resume our language to science
and leave the rest to silence

Natasha Tsakos

#49. All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
"Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?"
"Who knows, maybe by whistling?

Apostolos Doxiadis

#50. Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science ... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Francois Magendie

#51. The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.

Ada Lovelace

#52. Your religious book(s) mentioned the power of mind thousands of years ago so WHY do you have to wait until the science proves it in the 21st century? Let others wait to realize/prove the facts not you.

Maddy Malhotra

#53. True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

David O. McKay

#54. The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

#55. Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.

Paul Davies

#56. MacArthur himself was more interested in the similarities among phenomena, because similarities reveal the workings of regular processes ... I've already quoted MacArthur's statement that to do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Quammen, David

#57. Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

B.F. Skinner

#58. It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

Ernst Cassirer

#59. Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

Ori Hofmekler

#60. Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Michael Faraday

#61. All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Bertrand Russell

#62. Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

Stefan Molyneux

#63. Science is a lie in day-light, with a lot witnesses. Religion is a truth in darkness, without any need for such witness!

Thiruman Archunan

#64. If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

Dalai Lama

#65. [Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

Hermann Bondi

#66. Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Karl Popper

#67. Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

Brigham Young

#68. ... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

Max Weber

#69. The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

#70. The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.

John Von Neumann

#71. Our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

Valentino Braitenberg

#72. Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

Claude Bernard

#73. I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

Richard P. Feynman

#74. It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible.

Henry M. Morris

#75. Well, sir. I look at facts. And the fact is that our world is dying and if we don't all do our best to save it, we aren't going to last much longer.

A.J. Lauer

#76. Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Ernst Mach

#77. For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

Albert Einstein

#78. It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.

Paul Feyerabend

#79. There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.

Finley Peter Dunne

#80. In America you can be armed, just not with the facts.

Bill Maher

#81. There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

Paul Broca

#82. Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

Francois Arago

#83. Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Miguel De Unamuno

#84. It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

Ernest Nagel

#85. I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Martin Chalfie

#86. There is no escaping the fact, however, that social science research on the distribution of wealth was for a long time based on a relatively limited set of firmly established facts together with a wide variety of purely theoretical speculations.

Thomas Piketty

#87. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#88. [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

H.L. Mencken

#89. Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Linus Pauling

#90. Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

William James

#91. Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Miguel De Unamuno

#92. Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Vivienne Westwood

#93. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

#94. The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#95. I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

#96. I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#97. We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

John F. Kerry

#98. Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

James Bryant Conant

#99. It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

Robin Williams

#100. How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

Nate Mendel