300 Best Science Quotes on science and technology

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. -John von Neumann

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. -Linus Pauling

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. -Wilhelm Reich

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. -Ashley Montagu

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. -Charles Kettering

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. -Wernher von Braun

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. -Pope John Paul II

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. -Milton Friedman

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. -Plato

There 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. Edison

Germany 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 Roosevelt

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. -Elbert Hubbard

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. -Jimi Hendrix

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. -Elbert Hubbard

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. -Aristotle

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -Carl Sagan

Ignorance 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 Darwin

We 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 Sagan

I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. -Joan Jett

If 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. Roosevelt

Let 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. Kennedy

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. -Edgar Allan Poe

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result. -Oscar Wilde

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -George Bernard Shaw

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. -Oscar Wilde

The man of science is a poor philosopher. -Albert Einstein

It 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 Einstein

Science 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 Keller

The 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 Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. -Albert Einstein

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it. -Albert Einstein

Science Quotes-The 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 James

Man lives for science as well as bread. -William James

Shun 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 Seneca

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. -Erich Fromm

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. -Aldous Huxley

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. -Paulo Coelho

Every 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 Paine

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. -Henry Ward Beecher

False 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 Darwin

It 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 Dawkins

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. -Aldous Huxley

I 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 Gates

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. -Bertrand Russell

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction. -Steven Wright

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. -Bertrand Russell

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 Particulars. -William Blake