Science Quotes

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know

Bertrand Russell

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them

Victoria Glendinning

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles.

William Blake

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Mary McCarthy

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Eric Gill

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof

Ashley Montagu

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions

Oscar Wilde

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Albert Einstein

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

William Hazlitt

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith
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