Best Science Quotes

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.