It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. Use this quote
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Use this quote
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen. Use this quote
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. Use this quote
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. Use this quote
I don't know anything about science. Use this quote
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. Use this quote
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. Use this quote
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. Use this quote
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. Use this quote
Experience by itself is not science. Use this quote
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. Use this quote
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. Use this quote
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects. Use this quote
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. Use this quote
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. Use this quote
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Use this quote
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. Use this quote
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. Use this quote
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. Use this quote