Science Quotes · Page 158

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

— Thomas R. Insel

“structure of creation. Nature herself is maya; natural science must perforce”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

— George Smoot

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

— William Whewell

“Metal makes everything magical. Just ask a unicorn. . .preferably one with a metal horn.”

— Sybrina Durant

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

— Arthur Guiterman

“When I saw the five star reviews appearing, I knew the research was progressing in the right direction.”

— Steven Magee

I am tired of all this thing called science here. We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last…

— Simon Cameron

“ Lister saw the vast importance of the discoveries of Pasteur . He saw it because he was watching on the heights,…

— Anonymous

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as…

— John M. Grunsfeld

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking…

— Jim Edgar

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

— Henry Louis Gates

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in…

— Robert Frost

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…

— Erwin Chargaff

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I…

— George Gamow

“What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in...,…

— Richard Dawkins

There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but…

— Celia Green

De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at…

— Anonymous

Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I…

— Bill McKibben

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

— Marti Noxon

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

— Charles Caleb Colton

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

— Eric Betzig

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“They bought research as they bough vegetables - a wonderful insight into official thinking about science.”

— Hans Jürgen Eysenck

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

— Jean Picard

“If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how to do it.”

— Atom Tate

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

— Alan Alda

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.”

— Bashir F. Biodun

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

— Josh Billings

I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom.

— Hope Jahren

At its core, what we do in 'MythBusters' is turn science into an adventure.

— Jamie Hyneman

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

— Greg Lynn

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

— Brian Henson