Top Science Quotes

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in a carriage or...

Science Definition

(n.) Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

(n.) Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.

(n.) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.

(n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

(n.) Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.

(v. t.) To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

There exists indeed an opposition to it [] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the . In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sound...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past...

Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observat...

Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, an infinite storm of beauty. The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by random blin...

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have become the rulers of this planet not by ferociousness, but by int...

Mind and Soul are one and the same thing.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

One day, scientists will overtake LIGHT and crash into the DARKNESS.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.