Scientific Facts Quotes:

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

- Henri Poincare

topic: House, Stones, Facts, Math And Science, Science And Technology

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

- Martin Luther

topic: Men, Power, Giving, Soul Force, Kings And Love

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

- Mark Twain

topic: Science, Math, Return, Mississippi, Mississippi River

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

- William Lawrence Bragg

topic: Knowledge, Learning, Science, Inspirational Science, Quantum Theory

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6343, Delphi Classics

topic: Ignorance, Science, Doe, Theism, Knowledge And Ignorance

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Managing Change, Theoretical

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

- H. L. Mencken

source: 'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

topic: Science, Intellectual, Demand, Natural Science, Scientific Facts

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Proclamation, Inspirational Science

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Science, Infinity, Facts, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Scientific Facts

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.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Change, Humility, Learning, Information Science, Good Science

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

- Thomas Huxley

source: "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Education, Information Science, Quantum Theory

Science is simply common sense at its best.

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

topic: Motivational, Common Sense, Common, Inspirational Science, Scientific Research

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Science, Men, Giving, Soul Force, Kings And Love

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

topic: Motivational, Education, Truth, Knowledge And Ignorance, Analytics

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

- Edward Teller

source: Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books

topic: Believe, Science, Simple, Scientific Facts, Guilty Until Proven Innocent

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes "Evolution as Fact and Theory" (1983)

topic: Mean, Science, Apples, Rotten Apples, Scientific Facts

McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.

- Holmes Rolston III

topic: Historical, Development, Facts, Scientific Facts

Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

- Sophie Kinsella

topic: Chocolate, Needs, Facts, Scientific Facts

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

- Thomas Hobbes

topic: Science, Reality, Facts, Another Time, Dependence On Others

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

topic: Facts, Easy, Minutes, Irregularity, Scientific Facts

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Mother, Children, Facts, Scientific Facts

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

- Matthew McConaughey

source: Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

topic: Gratitude, Facts, Reciprocate, Academy Awards, Scientific Facts

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

- Roy H. Williams

topic: Truth, Two, Half, General Relativity, Scientific Facts

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

- Edwin Boring

source: "Psychologist at large: An autobiography and selected essays". Book by Edwin Boring, p. 3, 1961.

topic: Understanding, Historical, Facts, Differentiate, Scientific Facts

It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.

- Annalee Newitz

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Past, Civilization, Carbon Cycle, Political Issues, Scientific Facts

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

- Eugenie Scott

topic: Religious, School, Ideas, Scientific Facts, Guise

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.'

- Matthew McConaughey

source: Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

topic: Gratitude, Opportunity, Hands, Reciprocate, Scientific Facts

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution, Kinship, Spiritual Experience

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

- Louis Sabin

topic: Dog, Facts, Pleasure, Scientific Facts

But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: School, Thinking, Views, Scientific Facts

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

- Estelle Ramey

topic: Fun, Flower, Games, Scientific Facts

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

- Garrett Fort

topic: Yesterday, Lines, Superstitions, Scientific Facts

In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.

- David R. Hawkins

topic: Effort, Buoyancy, Add, Scientific Facts

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

- C. S. Lewis

source: The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism Book Two Chapter I (p. 37)

topic: Facts, Enough, Method, Scientific Facts

When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.

- Paul Davies

topic: Earth, Today, Facts, Scientific Facts

I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.

- Victor J. Stenger

topic: Taken, Self, Scary, Scientific Facts

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

- Robin Williams

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Fiction, Want, Facts, Good Science, Scientific Facts

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

- Anna Journey

topic: Shrimp, Cows, Superstitions, Scientific Facts

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Fiction, Facts, Century, Scientific Facts

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Doubt, Climate, Faces, Scientific Facts

Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Self, Law, Ideas, Scientific Facts

When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Believe, Fighting, Discovery, Constrain, Scientific Facts

It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible.

- Henry M. Morris

topic: Biblical, Giving, Scripture, Scientific Facts

The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.

- Harun Yahya

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Facts, Creation, Actuality, Darwinism, Scientific Facts

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

- Deepak Chopra

source: Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

topic: People, Asking, Facts, Scientific Facts

There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.patheos.com

topic: Country, Religious, Growing Up, School Board, School System

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Suicide, Intellectual, Want, Inhumane, Scientific Facts

We know the cause of SIDS. We can and have prevented them. It's all done with a compound called ascorbate. Not to use it means deaths will continue. There is no other answer. There never will be. For our findings are based on scientific facts. Not medical opinion.

- Archie Kalokerinos

topic: Mean, Use, Done, Sids, Scientific Facts