Science Quotes

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.

Our true mentor in life is science.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people. Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn, we have to seek its aid.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

One sees that science also rests on a belief: there is no science at all without premises.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.