Science Quotes

You can fool a scientist, but you can never fool another magician.

When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.[Quand la science a prononcé, il n’y a plus qu’à se taire.]

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Your Science, which makes you great in your own eyes, is paltry indeed beside the light which bathes a Seer.[Vos sciences actuelles, ce qui vous fait grands à vos propres yeux, sont des misères auprès des lueurs dont sont inondés les Voyants.]

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

What fanaticism promised in times past to the elect, science is now achieving for all men![Que le fanatisme autrefois promettait à ses élus, la science maintenant l’accomplit pour tous les hommes!]

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.[Wir fühlen, dass selbst, wenn alle möglichen wissenschaftlichen Fragen beantwortet sind, unsere Lebensprobleme noch gar nicht berührt sind.]

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant; advocacy neither doubts nor believes that it does not know. It requires a solution.[La verdadera ciencia enseña, ante todo, a dudar y a ignorar; la abogacía ni duda ni cree que ignora. Necesita de una solución.]

This violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realizes that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

The ultimate basis on which all our knowledge and science rest is the inexplicable.[Der Grund und Boden, auf dem alle unsere Erkenntnisse und Wissenschaften ruhen, ist das Unerklärliche.]