Francis Bacon Quotes

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir

Science is the only savior.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.