Famous Quotes
- Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Science
- Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
- Joseph Rotblat on Science
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
- Isaac Asimov on Science
- Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
- Arthur Erickson on Science
- Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.
- Seth Lloyd on Science
- Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- Intelligence is not a science.
- Frank Carlucci on Science
- Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
- Joshua Foer on Science
- Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
- Paul Davies on Science
- It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
- Terry Pratchett on Science
- It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
- Alva Myrdal on Science
- It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
- Richard Dawkins on Science
- It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
- Konrad Lorenz on Science
- It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.
- Michael Behe on Science
- It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
- John Desmond Bernal on Science
- It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.
- Tom Vilsack on Science
- It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
- Edouard Manet on Science
- It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
- Josef Albers on Science
- It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
- Michael Behe on Science
- It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
- Norman Cousins on Science
- It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
- Jean Rostand on Science
- It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Science
- It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
- Charles Babbage on Science
- It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
- Henri Poincare on Science
- It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
- Elizabeth Moon on Science
- It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
- Jeremy Rifkin on Science
- It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Science
- It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
- Mary Douglas on Science
- It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
- It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
- Albert Einstein on Science
- It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.
- Nicole Scherzinger on Science
- It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
- Galileo Galilei on Science
- It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
- Michael Behe on Science
- It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
- Andrew Greeley on Science
- It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
- Wernher Von Braun on Science
- It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
- Laurel Clark on Science
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Eliot Spitzer on Science
- It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
- Daniel Keys Moran on Science
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
- James Lovelock on Science
- Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
- Henri Poincare on Science
- Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
- Edward Thorndike on Science
- Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
- John Calvin on Science
- Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
- Randy Newman on Science
- Leave the atom alone.
- E. Y. Harburg on Science
- Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
- John F. Kennedy on Science
- Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Samuel Butler on Science
- Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
- Laurel Clark on Science
- Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
- Paul Nurse on Science
- Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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