Famous Quotes
- The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
- John Glenn on Science
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.
- Terry Pratchett on Science
- The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
- Jacob Bronowski on Science
- The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
- William Shatner on Science
- The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
- Alvin Toffler on Science
- The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
- Gertrude Stein on Science
- The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Science
- The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
- The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
- Shimon Peres on Science
- The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
- Paul Davies on Science
- The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
- Phillip E. Johnson on Science
- The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
- The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
- Herbert Simon on Science
- The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
- Edward De Bono on Science
- The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Science
- The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
- Walter Lippmann on Science
- The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
- John Desmond Bernal on Science
- The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
- John Desmond Bernal on Science
- The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
- Eric Schmidt on Science
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov on Science
- The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.
- Jim Sensenbrenner on Science
- The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
- The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
- A. J. Liebling on Science
- The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
- Gary Bauer on Science
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton on Science
- The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
- Alfred Adler on Science
- The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
- Edward Teller on Science
- The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell on Science
- The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
- Irving Langmuir on Science
- The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
- Michael Behe on Science
- The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
- Octavia Butler on Science
- The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
- Jonathan Miller on Science
- The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
- Al Franken on Science
- 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.
- Simon Newcomb on Science
- The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
- Stephen Hawking on Science
- The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
- Stephen Hawking on Science
- The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
- Werner Heisenberg on Science
- The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
- Walter Gilbert on Science
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- Anton Chekhov on Science
- The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen Hawking on Science
- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein on Science
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
- David Attenborough on Science
- The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
- John B. S. Haldane on Science
- The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
- John Ruskin on Science
- The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
- Gary Vaynerchuk on Science
- The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
- Dave Barry on Science
- The world is my country, science is my religion.
- Christiaan Huygens on Science
- The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.
- Freeman Dyson on Science
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