Science Quotes

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, ‘The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.’

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +’s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +’s.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.