8,157 Quotes About Science

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Science looks to define observable truths building on current measurable knowledge. As knowledge is expanded, we find that not all "truths" are immutable. It's the essence of science. - Tom Golway

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced. Because of this, even wisdom - which otherwise consists more in conduct than in knowledge - still needs science, not in order to learn from it but in order to provide access and durability for its precepts.

Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.