Science Quotes

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Sir Humphrey Davy

To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.

Friedrich Karl Ludwig Schoedler

One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.

Alexander Pope

The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.

Bernard Lovell

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Sir Humphrey Davy

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Sir Humphrey Davy

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy.

Sir Humphrey Davy

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov