Science Quotes · Page 159

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

— Charles Glover Barkla

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

— Nicholas Negroponte

“Science can't prove faith. The two operate in entirely different realms. Natural and spiritual.”

— Mike Dellosso Frantic

“Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

— David Eagleman

“An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.”

— Luis Marques

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

— Ernst Haeckel

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

— Charles Kettering

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and…

— Charles Kingsley

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

— Anonymous

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's…

— Margaret D. Klein

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge,…

— John Forbes Nash

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological…

— Paul Nurse

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

— Johannes Kepler

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so…

— Charles Fort

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere…

— Harun Yahya

“Så i tråd med min åpenhjertige natur begynte jeg min presentasjon med simpelthen å fortelle dem sannheten - at jeg alltid har…

— Dan Brown

“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his…

— Felix D'Herelle

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and…

— William Henry Bragg

The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so…

— John Hurt

The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the…

— Leon M. Lederman

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;…

— Dan Rather

The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in…

— Davies Gilbert

Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific…

— Richard Lindzen

“But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.”

— Walter Miller

“Science is in its source, eternal; in its scope,immeasurable; in its problems, endless; in its goal, unattainable”

— Von Baer

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

— E. O. Wilson

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

— Bryan Appleyard

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

— Baron d'Holbach

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

— Lu Xun

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

— Ian Goldin

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

— Dallas Campbell

“For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.”

— Thomas Huxley

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

— Carl Jung

Film production is not rocket science. It's about organizing resources and pooling in funds.

— Ravi Babu

“no scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s).”

— Richard Diaz

Coming out of college, many of our analysts are steeped in genomic research.

— Cathie Wood

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

— Julian May

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

— Martin Luther