Science Quotes

Science is the long, slow process of replacing "I believe" with "I know." These quotes explore discovery, curiosity, the scientific method, and the awe that comes from understanding even a small piece of how the universe actually works.

“According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.”

Stanislav Grof

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“While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.”

Mike Pence

“Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.”

Jeff Goodell

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.”

James Dyson

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

Louis Pasteur

“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”

Stephen Hawking

“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.”

Charles Babbage

“Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.”

Cathy McMorris

“Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.”

Jonathan Sacks

“Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.”

Bill Frist

“I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.”

Sally Ride

“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.”

Herbert Hoover

“I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.”

Octavia Butler

“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”

John Ruskin

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