Science Quotes · Page 103

“If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.”

— Alastair Agutter

“Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political, and social puzzle in history.”

— Gun Gun Febrianza

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

— Sigmund Freud

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

— Niels Bohr

I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.

— Gaspar Noe

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

— Frederick Lenz

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas…

— Kenneth P. Green

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he…

— Evariste Galois

Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them…

— Michael Pollan

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different…

— James Hansen

“I believe places can heal. I believe science can heal. I believe God can heal. And I believe my hands can heal.…

— Corabel Shofner

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with…

— Ramez Naam

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is…

— Francis Bacon

“At high school I was never comfortable for a minute. I did not know about Lonnie. Before an exam, she got icy…

— Alice Munro

“But Ransom, as time wore on, became aware of another and more spiritual cause for his progressive lightening and exultation of heart.…

— C. S. Lewis

The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval…

— Gary B. Ferngren

Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and…

— Isaac Newton

Most scientists assumethat life can only exist in physical life form. They send spaceships to other planets, looking for signs of physical…

— Choa Kok Sui

Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is…

— Antony Flew

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up…

— William J. Clinton

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

— Boris Sidis

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

— George Iles

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

— Frederik Pohl

“In darkness lies a mystery that has the power to shine brighter than true light. ☥”

— Luis Marques

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

— Lynn Nottage

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

— Raymond Tallis

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

— Karl Hess

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

— Peter Hammill

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

— Brian Andreas

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

— Albert Einstein

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I'm a science geek. I even have a T-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark chart of the periodic elements.

— Peter Krause

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

— Owen Chamberlain

“As a scientist I have come to learn that information is only as valuable as its source.”

— Dan Brown

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai