Science Quotes · Page 111

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

— Louis Althusser

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

“We live in a world of illusion and when reality is finally revealed to us, it is terrifying.”

— Harrison O. Goodhorn

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

— Erma Bombeck

“With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.”

— Epicurus

“So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters.”

— A.G. Riddle

“Being articulate is not the same as being wise. Truth devoid of conscience, is worthless in human existence.”

— Abhijit Naskar

...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as…

— Michael Pollan

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire…

— Jack W. Szostak

When the other girls had physical or practical classes like PE, drama or science, I would spend the lessons in the library,…

— Liz Carr

So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely…

— Stephen Hawking

“science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen—though often you only…

— Arthur C. Clarke

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be…

— Plato

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest…

— Koren Zailckas

“Science is limited only to the physical (physiology) and mental (psychology) planes, but mysticism even examine the spiritual plane. At the same…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an…

— Mary Roach

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly…

— Marcel Proust

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the…

— Lesslie Newbigin

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has…

— Hannes Alfven

“Many humanists and artists recoil from the proposition that cultural evolution has hitherto been shaped by unconscious impersonal forces. The determined nature…

— Marvin Harris

The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet…

— Thomas Jefferson

The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.

— Terry Pratchett

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

— Terry Pratchett

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

— Peter Medawar

Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

— Archilochus

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

— Hilary Mason

“Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.”

— Amit Ray

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

— Bill Nye

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

— Alison Jolly

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

— Shuji Nakamura

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

— Frank Herbert

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“In the scientific world, "fear" is usually called "skepticism.”

— James Fadiman

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

— Richard Hamming

“The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson