Quotes about science

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Stephen Hawking

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors of the dismal science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

Thomas Carlyle

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Thomas Carlyle

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

David Hume

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Nikola Tesla

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: ‘Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?’ From what I’ve seen, it’s not likely.

Tim Ferriss

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Stephen Hawking