Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I'm very interested in science.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

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

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

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

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.