The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
AristotleA professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. MenckenAll proofs rest on premises.
AristotleSuccess is a science, if you have the conditions you get the result.
Oscar WildeTherefore the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleScience predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Stephen HawkingThere are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
AristotleScience may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerIt is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert EinsteinIn wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles LindberghRomance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar WildeKnowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert EinsteinPolitics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
Sai BabaI think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert EinsteinIt should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert EinsteinWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganBooks are the money of Literature but only the counters of Science.
Thomas HuxleyScience must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas CarlyleWe must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
Deepak ChopraI used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Stephen HawkingWhenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography history or science it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history mythology is absurd.
Joseph CampbellScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantThe universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract.
Stephen HawkingScience fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.
Ray BradburyScience is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas HuxleyThere could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert EinsteinScience coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
Richard DawkinsPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind and science.
E. O. WilsonReason observation and experience, the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green IngersollA good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body, it preserves constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
Joseph AddisonScience without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinScience is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake and must keep the conscience alive.
George EliotScience and literature are not two things but two sides of one thing.
Thomas HuxleyThe god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively a God who does a wholesale not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William JamesTime travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen HawkingThe capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation be it in art or in science.
Erich FrommI am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
Richard DawkinsThe environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert EinsteinOur delight in any particular study art or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Joseph AddisonBut perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation the wonder of science scientific ways of thinking and the history of scientific ideas rather than laboratory experience.
Richard DawkinsWhen you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith, when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Anton ChekhovAmong physicists, I'm respected I hope.
Stephen HawkingScience commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas HuxleyIt 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.
Albert EinsteinTo the Master's honor all must turn each in its track without a sound forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert EinsteinEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.
Stephen CoveyWhile all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John AdamsThe foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William BlakeThe method of political science is the interpretation of life, its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.
Woodrow WilsonWe've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl SaganSpecialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded in certain circles as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous HuxleyScience has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Thomas HuxleyThere are many silly superstitions about lightning and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky anytime anywhere and kill you.
Dave BarryScience is nothing but perception.
PlatoThe latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
Winston ChurchillI think it better to do right even if we suffer in so doing than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. LeeThe very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
John DeweyScience reckons many prophets but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Thomas HuxleyThe church saves sinners but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert HubbardA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliI sit here and think with more than a little astonishment that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty if pinned down.
Isaac AsimovReligion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand RussellIt vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo GalileiA science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone WeilSkeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl SaganDemocracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. MenckenWe have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow WilsonScience is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand RussellPhilosophy is the science which considers truth
AristotleTraditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer, independent reality exists, the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth, would still be there if no one was looking.
Deepak ChopraMen love to wonder and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMost of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may as a rule be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert EinsteinOne science only will one genius fit, so vast is art so narrow human wit.
Alexander PopeThe most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds the most discoveries is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny'
Isaac AsimovScience has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John BurroughsThere will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. EdisonHe who possesses art and science has religion, he who does not possess them needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl MarxThere is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. HeinleinAll sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich NietzscheThe great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas HuxleyEcclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas HuxleyGermany has reduced savagery to a science and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore RooseveltIn questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo GalileiOur account does not rob mathematicians of their science by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula
AristotleScience is but an image of the truth.
Francis BaconI do not believe in God, his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul SartreThe media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
Stephen HawkingIf history and science have taught us anything it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WilsonThe man of science has learned to believe in justification not by faith but by verification.
Thomas HuxleyBy any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WilsonThe human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.
Mahatma GandhiLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
StendhalScience has explained nothing, the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous HuxleyScience is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell HolmesScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac NewtonScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WilsonScience is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion.
Stephen HawkingThe usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen HawkingThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert EinsteinI have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Gustave FlaubertPolitics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul SartreThe science of Yoga was assigned great prominence in the past by Indians.
Sai BabaNo delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit either in science or in practical life.
Thomas HuxleyWhen I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
Steven WrightArt is science made clear.
Wilson MiznerI am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl SaganScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas HuxleyScience fiction writers foresee the inevitable and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable solutions are not.
Isaac AsimovThe enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science especially in the schools of America.
Richard DawkinsI have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Bill GatesIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinI've lost my faith in science.
Bette DavisThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. HeinleinEnglish is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
Abdul KalamEvery known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will, as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.
Andrew JacksonVanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise PascalPhilosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
Stephen HawkingPure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert EinsteinIn science as in art and as I believe in every other sphere of human activity there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas HuxleyPolitical liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore de BalzacArt is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert HubbardThough science can cause problems it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
Isaac AsimovTheology is a science of mind applied to God.
Henry Ward BeecherLet both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars conquer the deserts eradicate disease tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. KennedyLife is not an exact science it is an art.
Samuel ButlerThe man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert EinsteinIndividual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac AsimovMan lives for science as well as bread.
William JamesThe most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds new discoveries is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
Isaac AsimovAll one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave FlaubertScience is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
Lord ByronAll he would have needed to do to verify or refute this theory was to ask a number of men and women to open their mouths so he could count their teeth.
AristotleThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude SteinThe 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.
Albert EinsteinAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinNow that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt the priestly caste there having the leisure neces
AristotleThere is an art to science and a science in art, the two are not enemies but different aspects of the whole.
Isaac AsimovIn 1936 I first wrote science fiction. It was a long-winded attempt at writing an endless novel...which died. I remember one sentence "Whole forests stood sere and brown in midsummer".
Isaac AsimovEvery science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
Thomas PaineThe world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave BarryScience in the modern world has many uses, its chief use however is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe should not teach children the sciences, but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMoral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas AquinasThe process of scientific discovery is in effect a continual flight from wonder.
Albert EinsteinIt has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard DawkinsThe changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo TolstoyThe fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand RussellScience never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard ShawBooks must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis BaconScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonShun 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 SenecaWhoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich NietzscheIf a wave of service sweeps over the land catching everyone in its enthusiasm it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do, your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!
Sai BabaMental Science had advanced so much that they could reproduce what had happened or predict what would happen.
Sai BabaScience is global. Einstein's equation E=mc2 has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
Abdul KalamThere is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac AsimovEverything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it and it always has been.
Steve MartinPart of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
Barack ObamaThe wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on, science and art are as well.
Anton ChekhovScience is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas HuxleyA likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
AristotleAlmost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand RussellThe Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel ButlerOccurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert EinsteinThe inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is he is a good man. If not he must be starved.
William BlakeThe chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
AristotleThe Yoga science is today being probed by physicists and others in Western countries.
Sai BabaThe mysteriousness and mystique of space is such that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
William ShatnerThe continuum is that which is divisible into indivisible that are infinitely divisible Physics.
AristotleThe mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitation, and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
AristotleOf course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard DawkinsNatural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Karl MarxI have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles LindberghArt is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
William BlakeFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science for they often endure long, but false views if supported by some evidence do little harm for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles DarwinThe credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheScience arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right, a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert EinsteinThe only guide to man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield however the fates may play we march always in the ranks of honor.
Winston Churchill