Science Quotes · Page 155

There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.

— Heidi Hammel

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

— Frank Wilczek

I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

— Oscar Wilde

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

— Michel de Montaigne

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

“We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

— Henry David Thoreau

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations

— Abdu'l-Bahá

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

— Anonymous

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

— Bruno Latour

If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century…

— Steven Weinberg

“Resilience Training is a proven eight-week program that incorporates the latest science on diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements along with the best…

— Henry Emmons

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a…

— Peter Agre

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So…

— Zachary Lazar

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is…

— Richard Dawkins

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to…

— Henri Poincare

“...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And…

— Shawn Lawrence Otto

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…

— H. L. Mencken

I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was…

— James Patterson

We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and…

— David Hume

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the…

— Carl Sagan

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology…

— Freeman Dyson

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.”

— Robert Jastrow

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

— Wernher von Braun

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

— Thomas A. Edison

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

— Robert A. Burton

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

— Neil Armstrong

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

— Richard Taverner

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

— James P. Gorman

“The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom.”

— Rsd

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

— Ben Shneiderman

A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

— Walter Alexander Raleigh