Science Quotes

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Teller

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Edward Thorndike

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

A. E. van Vogt

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

E. O. Wilson

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

Esther Williams

My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

Freema Agyeman

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Felix Bloch

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Francis Collins

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

Francis Ford Coppola

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

Freeman Dyson

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

Freeman Dyson

Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Freeman Dyson

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

Friedrich August von Hayek

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Friedrich August von Hayek

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

Frank Knight

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Frank Knight

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

Frank Luntz