Famous Quotes

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

Henri Poincare on Science

More quotes about Science

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by Henri Poincare

• "The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

• "The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

• "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

• "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

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