Science 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 EinsteinWhile 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 BlakeWe'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 work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.
John RuskinThe 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 Emersonwith her factories equipped to the very latest point of science by British and American money.
Winston ChurchillMost 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 BurroughsHe 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. HeinleinWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoAll 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 NietzscheScience can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul IIEcclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas HuxleyIn 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. WilsonLogic 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 EmersonThe greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.
Milton FriedmanIf we take science as our sole guide if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable the old theology must go.
John BurroughsVanity 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 BalzacThough science can cause problems it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
Isaac AsimovLife is not an exact science it is an art.
Samuel ButlerThe man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert EinsteinAs long as men are free to ask what they must free to say what they think free to think what they will freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel ProustIndividual 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 FlaubertI believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that.
Maya AngelouAll 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 AsimovThe capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius of erudition and of science.
James MadisonIn 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 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 BaconWhen freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul IIShun 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 SenecaFame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few, and that too at the expense of social pleasure health conscience life.
Benjamin DisraeliI don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingWhoever 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 AsimovScience 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 ButlerThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen HawkingScience investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Occurrences 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 EinsteinIf civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples of all kinds to live together in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe 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.
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 DawkinsI have seen the science I worshiped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles LindberghFalse 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 DarwinOne could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. HeinleinPolitics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow WilsonNo 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