Science Quotes

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

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

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding