Famous Quotes
- Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
- Ralph W. Sockman on Science
- Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
- Marlon Wayans on Science
- Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
- Alan Perlis on Science
- Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- Edsger Dijkstra on Science
- Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
- Paul Davies on Science
- Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
- Edward Sapir on Science
- Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken on Science
- Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
- James Dyson on Science
- Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
- Martin H. Fischer on Science
- Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
- Walter Reisch on Science
- Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
- William Gibson on Science
- Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
- Jeff Goodell on Science
- Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
- Kevin J. Anderson on Science
- Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes on Science
- Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
- Thomas Huxley on Science
- Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
- Paul Samuelson on Science
- Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
- Vivienne Westwood on Science
- Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
- David Suzuki on Science
- Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.
- Roy H. Williams on Science
- English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
- Abdul Kalam on Science
- English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
- Edward Sapir on Science
- Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
- Alton Brown on Science
- Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
- Edwin Powell Hubble on Science
- Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
- Walter Jon Williams on Science
- Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
- H. P. Blavatsky on Science
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- John Dewey on Science
- Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science
- Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
- Will Durant on Science
- Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
- Thomas Paine on Science
- Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
- Francis Parker Yockey on Science
- Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
- Alton Brown on Science
- Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
- J. G. Ballard on Science
- Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.
- Steve Martin on Science
- Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
- Ray Comfort on Science
- Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
- William Jennings Bryan on Science
- Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
- Phillip E. Johnson on Science
- Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
- Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
- Barbara Ehrenreich on Science
- Experimentation is an active science.
- Claude Bernard on Science
- Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
- Martin H. Fischer on Science
- Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
- Linus Pauling on Science
- Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.
- Eliot Spitzer on Science
- False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Darwin on Science
- Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
- Octavia Butler on Science
- Fashion is more about feel than science.
- Pharrell Williams on Science
- Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
- Henry Fielding on Science
- Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin on Science
- Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Science
- Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
- Stephen Jay Gould on Science
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