Lord Kelvin Quotes

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.'

Who does science determines what science gets done.

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

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.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

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

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

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

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

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.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

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.

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.

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.

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

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

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.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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 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.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.