Quotes on Best Science

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.