Science Quotes · Page 153

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY”

— Leonard Susskind

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

— Alan Stern

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

— Linda M. Godwin

Whenever I'm near you,I undergo anaerobic respiration because you take my breath away.

— Anonymous

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

— Stephen Hawking

Rigorous skepticism is a prerequisite for good science, just as it is for good journalism.

— Miranda Devine

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,

— Dion Fortune

“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but…

— Robyn Mundell

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if…

— Carl Sagan

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours…

— John Dryden

“While researchers strive to expand the frontiers of human faculties, the products of their endeavors tend to dull the creative urge of…

— B.S. Murthy

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be…

— Aristotle

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is…

— Thomas Hobbes

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical…

— Karl Popper

Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for…

— Daniel T. Willingham

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true…

— Colin Wilson

“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost…

— Russell Powell

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious…

— Steven Weinberg

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with…

— Carl Sagan

“When you drop a hammer and a feather together, which one hits the ground first? If you pose this question to the…

— Sharad Nalawade

“For all the scientific evidence we were amassing, many people, both in government and in the citizenry our elected officials are supposedly…

— James Patterson

…science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

— Carl Phillips

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

— Agatha Christie

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

— Werner Heisenberg

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

— Alexander Smith

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

— Eric Ries

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

— Max Born

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

— Scarlett Thomas

“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.”

— Bill Bryson

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

— Aaron Swartz

My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties.

— Gza

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

— Muhammad Iqbal

To witness history and science being made in front of your eyes is the rush.

— Ginger Zee

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

— James Clerk Maxwell

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

— Carl Linnaeus

“Magic is what you call something you don’t understand. This is science, dear. Nothing magic about it.”

— Tony Bertauski

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

— James Cronin