Science Quotes · Page 170

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

— Henry David Thoreau

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

— Arthur Eddington

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

— Booth Tarkington

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

— Charles H. Townes

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

— Linus Pauling

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

— Bruno Rossi

“Show me the science. Last I heard, gay six-year-olds remain unproven.”

— Vernon D. Burns

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the…

— Victor Hugo

“For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply…

— Evan Harris Walker

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things.…

— Barbara Sukowa

Unless we make computer science a priority, we risk making gender, class, and racial disparities worse as jobs flow to those with…

— Susan Wojcicki

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a…

— Richard Dawkins

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come…

— Bill Gates

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science… This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only…

— Jacques Ellul

Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely…

— Stephen Jay Gould

[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

“Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of…

— David Wong

What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which…

— Noam Chomsky

Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the…

— Scott Mandia

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks…

— Ian Bremmer

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I…

— Laurel Clark

We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of…

— Jimmy Sangster

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

— Fabiola Gianotti

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

— Laurence Sterne

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.”

— Ken Poirot

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

— Richard Hamming

Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative.

— John M. Grunsfeld

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

— Michelle Dockery

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

— Isaac Asimov

I think chemists always think they know more than they know, because nature has a lot of possible pathways it can try.

— David Grinspoon

Science will always give answer to the first question but refuses to the last one.

— Vikrant Parsai

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

— Isaac Newton

I'm a bit woo-woo - you know, I believe there's a Loch Ness monster. It's science!

— CMAT

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

— Edwin Land

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

“The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;”

— Karl R. Popper