Science Quotes · Page 122

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

— Thomas A. Edison

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

— Albert Einstein

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

— Duke of Wellington

“Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.”

— James D. Carswell

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.

— Homaro Cantu

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I don't think it's gross. I think it's kind of beautiful. Everything, and everyone, is interconnected.”

— Susin Nielsen

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders…

— Alexander Pope

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full…

— Amelia Earhart

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree…

— Hiram Maxim

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't…

— Robert Sheckley

I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in…

— Auguste Laurent

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual…

— Albert Einstein

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend…

— Ian Stevenson

To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown…

— Alfred Smee

The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or…

— G. H. Hardy

While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the…

— Albert Einstein

In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We…

— Nevill Francis Mott

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this…

— Ronald Fisher

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only…

— Theodore Sturgeon

You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.

— Rajneesh

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

— William H. Calvin

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

— Marshall McLuhan

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

“Magic is just what we call a phenomena that science hasnt yet explained”

— Sarah Swan

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

— Michael Behe

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

“We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.”

— Michael Talbot

“The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science,”

— Anonymous

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

— Thomas Hobbes

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.”

— Dave Barry

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

— Gene Wolfe

“However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.”

— Luis Marques

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

— Robert Breault