8,157 Quotes About Science

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.