Science Quotes · Page 176

“The great thing about growing up with science fiction is that you have an interest in everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

— Isaac D'Israeli

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

— Herbert Spencer

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

— Amy Carter

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

— Mason Cooley

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism...”

— Walter J. Moore

“Data science takes a natural and intuitive human process—spotting patterns and making sense of them—and injects it with steroids, potentially showing us…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and…

— Bryan Konietzko

The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment…

— Irving Babbitt

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through…

— Albert Einstein

“Mr Police Officer, you do not know me and as a police corruption researcher I will be filing a police complaint about…

— Steven Magee

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer,…

— Frank P. Ramsey

Nuclear is the largest source of clean, carbon-free power in rich nations, and the science shows it is the safest way to…

— Michael Shellenberger

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the…

— William Bligh

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

“I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -…

— Larry Niven

“Dawkins is an eloquent science journalist. What else is he? I mean journalism is a high and influential profession. But he’s not…

— Edward O. Wilson

Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are…

— George Pattison

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this…

— Plato

To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

— Jacque Fresco

I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

— Andrew Lincoln

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

— Aerin Lauder

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

— Graham Hancock

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

— Anthony Doerr

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

— Dominic Cummings

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

— Michio Kaku

“It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.”

— Paulo Coelho

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

— Claude Bernard

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

— Pranav Mistry

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr