Quotes in science

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

It's important to distinguish well-conducted from poorly conducted research, and to understand the outcome variables in a given investigation. For example, if someone were to announce that studies have shown traditional classroom discipline techniques are 'effective,' our immediate response should be to ask, 'Effective at what? Promoting meaningful learning? Concern for others? Or merely eliciting short-term obedience?' Empirical findings can come from rigorously conducted scientific studies but still be of limited value; everything depends on the objectives that informed the research.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.