Science Quotes
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Burroughs, John
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. -- John Burroughs
Churchill, Winston
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Edison, Thomas A.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. -- Thomas Alva Edison
Hawking, Stephen
I think that science itself is morally neutral. But scientists themselves need not be morally neutral…. They have moral responsibilities.
Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Huxley, Thomas H.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Lorenz, Konrad
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. -- Konrad Lorenz
Nagarjuna
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
Pauling, Linus
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Smith, Adam
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Weiss, John
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.