Science Quotes

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

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.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

What’s needed today, now, more than ever, is ‘Star Peace’ for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It’s called ‘Twilight’. And it is really, really bad.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.