Quotes about science

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

Leroy Hood

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

George Bernard Shaw

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Neil Armstrong

Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that’s not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

Quentin Tarantino

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Charles Darwin

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That’s a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

Steven Weinberg