Science Quotes · Page 140

Any one cant prove that God doesn't exist but science makes God unnecessary

— Stephen Hawking

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

— Charles Darwin

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

— Joan Robinson

“It just makes more sense if you base your personal life logic on science.”

— Steve Merrick

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

— Jaak Panksepp

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

— Rudolf Virchow

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and…

— Albert Einstein

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible…

— E. O. Wilson

“The world is not like you believe it to be; the world is not like you've been told that it is; the…

— John Janovy Jr

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to…

— Don Rickles

The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

— Mark Walport

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something…

— Richard Dawkins

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian…

— Pierre Duhem

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On…

— Sam Harris

“Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But…

— Eric Mason

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…

— Werner Heisenberg

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being,…

— N. Katherine Hayles

As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,…

— Fritjof Capra

There were certain things that grabbed my interest, such as photosynthesis, such as us living off plants and plants living off us.…

— Gza

“Some will tell you Love is merely chemical, my friends, said Adam one. Of course it is chemical: where would any of…

— Margaret Atwood

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

— Terry Pratchett

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

— Joseph Silk

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

— Arthur Eddington

“I became well known for researching what the corporate government did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

— George E. P. Box

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

— Imre Lakatos

It would encourage young researchers if we can show that there is a big return for good research.

— Tasuku Honjo

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

— Jules Verne

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

— Jamie Dimon

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.

— Colin Firth

Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

— Alonzo Bodden

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”

— Mark Lawrence

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

— Erwin Schrodinger

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

— Anthony Standen