Science Quotes · Page 125

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

— Fritjof Capra

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

— Isaac Asimov

“Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.”

— Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace

“Is it hot in here? I’m sweating like a Christian in science class.”

— Aaron B. Powell

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

— Abdus Salam

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

— Scott Cunningham

Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good…

— Tom Robbins

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it -…

— Yoko Ono

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future.…

— Carl Sagan

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient…

— George Sarton

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

— Lance Secretan

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who…

— Max Lerner

It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he…

— T.F. Torrance

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency;…

— Ben Goldacre

I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to…

— Gifford Pinchot

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense,…

— Richard Hamming

“Neoclassical economics has effectively insulated itself from the great advances made in science and engineering over the last 40 years. This self-imposed…

— Steve Keen

I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their…

— Rick Perry

“I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They're ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story,…

— Ann Druyan

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

— Monique Coleman

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

— Harrison Ford

“BY INVESTIGATING GOD’S MAJESTIC AND AWESOME CREATION, SCIENCE CAN ACTUALLY BE A MEANS OF WORSHIP. —FRANCIS COLLINS”

— Louie Giglio

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

— James Bryant Conant

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

— Paul Di Filippo

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

— Arthur Balfour

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

— Frank Zappa

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

— Henri Poincare

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

— George Polya

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

— Florence Nightingale

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.”

— Steven Pinker

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

— Jami Attenberg

“My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.”

— Abhijit Naskar