Science Quotes · Page 124

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

— Samuel Butler

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I do not consider myself to be a scientist, and I've always deferred to career scientists on issues of science.

— Andrew R. Wheeler

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

— Will Durant

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

— Bill Dedman

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

— Margaret Atwood

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

— Octavia Butler

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed…

— Norm MacDonald

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a…

— Eric Kandel

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the…

— Albert Einstein

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

— Tan Le

“I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz…

— William S. Wilson

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“When there are over 211,000 homicide cases since 1980 that still remain unsolved in America, and the same scientists who claim that…

— Calvin W. Allison

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…

— Anonymous

In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that…

— Niels Bohr

[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should…

— Ronald Fisher

I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is…

— Charles Darwin

What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new…

— Cecelia Ahern

“If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good…

— Sylvain Neuvel

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic

— Bernard Wolfe Limbo

“Is religion our alien creators' way of testing our faith in science?”

— James Pratt

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

— Robert Winston

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

“You cannot control anything yet you can affect on everything.”

— Maliheh Sadat Razavi

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

— John Powell

Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.

— Kathy Reichs

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

— Georges Cuvier

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

— Albert Einstein

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

“Life is perpetual. Though, it is ourselves which harvest these energies that perpetuate us in a positive direction.”

— Robert Ogawa

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

— Frederick Lenz

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

— Samuel Karlin

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

— Brian Cox

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a…

— Abraham Maslow