Science Quotes · Page 161

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

— Aristotle

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

— Moby

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

— Henry David Thoreau

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

— Charles Kingsley

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

— Brian Greene

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

— Charles Fort

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Panos Cosmatos

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

— Ivan Reitman

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells,…

— Alex Garland

“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”

— Robert Sapolsky

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain…

— Anonymous

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

— David G. Hartwell

My hope and my intention was that people would experience the tragedy of what Chernobyl was in every regard: a scientific tragedy,…

— Craig Mazin

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before…

— Rana el Kaliouby

“A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already…

— Isaac Asimov

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

“There are some scientists who frown upon such practices, believing that nature should run its course,” Jane wrote in an early chapter…

— Sy Montgomery

“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for…

— Peter Watts

“Human science too is concerned with establishing similarities, regularities, and conformities to law which would make it possible to predict individual phenomena…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters…

— Bertrand Russell

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of…

— H. L. Mencken

It's true that the level of scientific knowledge among adults is very low, but that's not because there isn't a natural interest.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the…

— Mario Bunge

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.…

— Arthur Balfour

Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.

— Ernest Holmes

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

— Noam Chomsky

In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.

— Grant Imahara

Scientists aren't necessarily good communicators, because they aren't trained to be good communicators.

— Simon Singh

“The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.”

— Stanley Kubrick

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

— Lennart Meri

“As summarized professionally by Lewin in Science69 (and popularly by Adler and Carey in Newsweek70),”

— Gary E. Parker

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

— Dave Barry

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Scientific studies of dog behavior have demonstrated that domestic dogs do not try to form hierarchies with humans.”

— American College of Veterinary Behaviorists

“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

— Gregory Chaitin

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

— Karl Marx

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

— Kenneth Arrow

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

— Anonymous

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

— Zora Neale Hurston