Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

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

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

Science rules!

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

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.