Quotes about Science
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
— William James
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
— Ben Stein
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Freedom, the first-born of science.
— Thomas Jefferson
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
— George Bernard Shaw
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
— GK Chesterton
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
— James A. Garfield
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
— Jane Goodall
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
— Thomas Jefferson
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
— Albert Einstein