Science Quotes · Page 109

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Science speaks in equations. Sufism speaks in silence. This book lives in the space between.”

— Neşe Sedetmen

If you're a real scientist, you're constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.

— Ron Livingston

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

— Seth MacFarlane

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.

— Justus von Liebig

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

“Science is the slow revelation of God's blueprint." (Bioshock Infinite, "God's Blueprint," Level: Fink Manufacturing, Date: April the 19th, 1908)”

— Hattie Gerst

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and…

— Laurence J. Peter

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to…

— E. O. Wilson

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is…

— Charles Lamb

Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for…

— David Grinspoon

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you…

— Tamar Braxton

I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,…

— Emily Oster

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons…

— Paul Di Filippo

“The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize…

— Steven Pinker

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once…

— Seth Shostak

“If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a…

— Edwin Abbott

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if…

— Francis Bacon

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory…

— Rene Descartes

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

— Frank Oppenheimer

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

— Nathan Deal

“Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.”

— Savas Dimopoulos

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

— Arthur E. Kennelly

With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that the South African bowling attack is exceptionally good.

— Mickey Arthur

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

— Peter David

“Key element of television programming, the characters must watch the programming themselves.”

— Moonn Tzu

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

— Jonathan Rauch

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

— Vint Cerf

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.”

— James Gavin

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

— Robert Reed

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

— Michelangelo Antonioni