Science Quotes · Page 110

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

— May Sarton

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

— Anatole France

“One will no more find God in science than he will find Colonel Sanders in his plate of chicken.”

— J. Chace Gordon

“Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.”

— Harry Harrison

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

— Konrad Lorenz

“...only one man lived who could understand Gibbs 's papers. That was Maxwell , and now he is dead.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

— Pierre Duhem

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

— Mike Johanns

“the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center’s life, thousands of students passed”

— Malcolm Gladwell

In addition to politics, I usually write about super heroes, science fiction and afro-futurism, so a collection of blaxploitation movies from the…

— Jason Johnson

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable…

— James Berardinelli

The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about…

— Marianne Williamson

“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”

— Bill Bryson

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

— Jared Diamond

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the…

— Jim Goad

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

— Elizabeth Moon

To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what's expected…

— Eileen Pollack

“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible.…

— François Jacob

“Researchers have speculated that those who fantasize about how wonderful life could be are ill prepared for the setbacks that frequently occur…

— Richard Wiseman

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of…

— Henry Norris Russell

I take advantage of and enjoy keeping up with all the scientific discoveries. Now, as an adult, I can appreciate what that…

— Tim Russ

“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common…

— Felix Alba-Juez

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the…

— Brian Greene

“Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought…

— Gustave Flaubert

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.”

— D.A. Blankinship

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

— Edmund Husserl

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

— Fritjof Capra

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

— Rachel Riley

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

— Walt Whitman

“Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne”

— A.K. Luthienne

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

— Christina Tosi

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

— Paul Nurse

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

— Konrad Lorenz

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

— Francis Bacon

“Life is like a dry handjob. Just when it starts getting good, it’s already over.”

— Jayme K

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

— Anaximander

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

— Michael Rosbash

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth…

— Francis Bacon

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

— Vikram Sarabhai