Science Quotes · Page 150

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

— Brian Greene

The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

— Edward Robert Harrison

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

— Thomas E. Mann

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

— John Charles Polanyi

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

— Carl Sagan

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

— Frederick Busch

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

— George Eliot

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

— Theobald Smith

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

— Buzz Aldrin

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's…

— Karl Pilkington

“Intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, it has been our experience that…

— Robert M. Hazen

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that…

— Thomas Piketty

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them…

— Eric Kandel

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that…

— Hans Reichenbach

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of…

— Phillip E. Johnson

I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which…

— Jan Morris

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we…

— Yuri Milner

“ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First, forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move…

— Erasmus Darwin

“All of the above scenario's (wars and atrocities) were caused by the robot's possession of human emotions and thus motivation. ISMAIL has…

— Steven Warr

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

“Success comes through a perfectly scientific mental process. The man who becomes prosperous believes that he is going to be prosperous. He…

— Orison Swett Marden

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.”

— Bertrand Russell

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

— Albert Einstein

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

— Lisa Randall

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

— Grove Karl Gilbert

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

— C.P. Snow

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

— Martin H. Fischer

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

— Anonymous

“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?”

— Carl Sagan

“I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!”

— Ray d'Inverno

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

— George Polya

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

— Gary Sloan

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

— Danica McKellar

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

— John Burroughs

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

— Emily Dickinson