Science Quotes · Page 119

“Scientist recreates pandemic flu virus that killed 500,000 people”

— Anonymous

What is love? In math, its a problem. In history, its a battle. In science, Its a reaction. But in my heart,…

— Anonymous

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

— Terence McKenna

“Trust to yourself; let our own eyes determine; Be they our tripods, oracles, and gods.”

— Voltaire

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

— Gary William Flake

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

— Edwin Land

I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies.

— Carolyn Porco

“In 1996 the Vatican, fresh from its magnanimous reconciliation with Galileo a mere 350 years after his death, publicly announced that evolution…

— Anonymous

“Wish me good luck, please,” I whisper. “On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity…

— Robyn Mundell

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a…

— Christopher Moore

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my…

— Eric Darnell

“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his…

— Max Delbruck

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or…

— David Deutsch

I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly…

— Jacqueline Carey

Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development…

— Simone Weil

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that…

— Richard Dawkins

Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in…

— Anatole France

Non-cooperative approaches, by contrast, almost always involve duplication of effort, since someone working independently must spend time and skills on problems that…

— Alfie Kohn

“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

It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world…

— Fred Hoyle

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of…

— Chris Hedges

There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the…

— Neko Case

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

— Robertson Davies

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

— Milana Vayntrub

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

— Irving Langmuir

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

— Ludwig von Mises

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

— Bianca Jagger

“Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!”

— Asse Sauga

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

— George Coyne

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

— E. M. Forster

“The beauty of scientific laws shows the beauty of God himself.”

— Anonymous

“Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!” Walter said brusquely.”

— Christa Faust

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

— William Daniel Phillips

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

— Cornelia Parker

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.

— Xenophanes