science - quotes

Helen (Adams) Keller, 1880-1968

was an US blind and deaf educator

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

( “My Religion”, 1927 )

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910

was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956

was a German Communist and dramatist

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

( “Life of Galileo”, 1937 - 1939 )

Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895

was a French biologist and bacteriologist

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.

( Gary Young M.D.'s lecture on chaos theory and Buddhism in Oregon State University on 04/17/03 (SGI-USA) )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

( Scientific American, September 2004, page 69 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

( “Physics and Reality”, 1936 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

( “Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium”, 1941 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.

Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906

was a Norwegian dramatist

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.