Quotes about science

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Albert Einstein

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

Thomas Jefferson

Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of nature.

Aristotle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thomas Carlyle

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Steven Spielberg

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Thomas Paine

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man’s place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man’s own nature.

John F. Kennedy

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

Charles Buxton

When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that’s faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that’s science.

Anton Chekhov

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Barack Obama