Science Quotes · Page 114

I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

— Alastair Reynolds

Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you.

— August Bier

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

— Alessandro Volta

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

— David Miliband

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

— Thomas Huxley

“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been…

— Robert J. Sawyer

So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of…

— Letitia Wright

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and…

— Paul Outerbridge

Oh, I'm a brilliant cook, I see baking as a very different thing. I can cook savoury things - cooking is just…

— Lucy Beaumont

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and…

— John Ruskin

“[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit…

— Andrew Dickson White

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept…

— Charles Lindbergh

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going…

— Karl Popper

“The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing…

— Anonymous

If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of…

— Martin Rees

One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that...…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once…

— Anonymous

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there…

— Tycho Brahe

When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I…

— Charles M. Blow

Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion.

— Tasuku Honjo

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone,

— Steve Ballmer

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

— Joshua Lederberg

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

— Leroy Chiao

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused…

— Charles Osgood

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Most importantly, I'd learned how to question and why ("when" had never been an issue: always).”

— Anonymous

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

— Sigmund Freud

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

— Blaise Pascal

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

— Joshua Lederberg

When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

— Amanda Seyfried

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

— William A. Dembski

I was a science student in junior college, but I knew I wouldn't pursue a career in the field.

— Mithila Palkar

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya