Science Quotes

The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.

Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.