Famous Quotes
- The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
- Ray Bradbury on Science
- The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Science
- The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
- Michael Pollan on Science
- The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
- Paul Davies on Science
- The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
- James Madison on Science
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Erich Fromm on Science
- The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
- Lewis Thomas on Science
- The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
- H. P. Blavatsky on Science
- The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
- Elbert Hubbard on Science
- The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas on Science
- The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
- Edward Tufte on Science
- The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
- Aleister Crowley on Science
- The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
- William Irwin Thompson on Science
- The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Science
- The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
- Robert A. Heinlein on Science
- The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
- Bruce Feirstein on Science
- The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
- Ashley Montagu on Science
- The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.
- Bill Toomey on Science
- The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss on Science
- The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
- Richard Dawkins on Science
- The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
- James D. Watson on Science
- The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
- Arnold H. Glasow on Science
- The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery on Science
- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
- William Blake on Science
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Bertrand Russell on Science
- The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
- David Hilbert on Science
- The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
- Geezer Butler on Science
- The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
- Dixie Lee Ray on Science
- The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.
- Mike Johanns on Science
- The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
- William James on Science
- The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein on Science
- The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley on Science
- The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
- Milton Friedman on Science
- The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
- Irving Babbitt on Science
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- Alton Brown on Science
- The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
- Edward Teller on Science
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
- Edward Bach on Science
- The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
- Robert Bork on Science
- The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- Thomas Huxley on Science
- The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein on Science
- The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
- George Meredith on Science
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
- Thomas Sowell on Science
- The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
- Stanislav Grof on Science
- The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
- Stephen Hawking on Science
- The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
- James Dyson on Science
- The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
- Woodrow Wilson on Science
- The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.
- Edward Sapir on Science
- The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
- Phillip E. Johnson on Science
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein on Science
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
- Isaac Asimov on Science
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