Science Quotes · Page 180

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

— Alice Stewart

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

— Anonymous

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

— Gavin Newsom

“For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other—Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.”

— Carl Sagan

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

— Bernard Williams

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

— Henry Taube

“Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.”

— Geoffroy Birtz

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing…

— Mark Twain

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

— Lewis Thomas

“Examining 15 types of legal gambling, the researchers came to a striking conclusion: Casino gambling had by far the most harmful effects…

— Anonymous

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality…

— Frederik Pohl

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied,…

— Michael Faraday

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the…

— Leland Stanford

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical…

— Stephen Senn

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human…

— Ed Ayres

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is…

— A.G. Riddle

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage…

— Aldo Leopold

“This world itself is a science. God lives within this science and He constantly sees how this process of science is taking…

— Dada Bhagwan

The period of time between the uncovering of some fundamental scientific finding that underpinned a medical advance, and the realization of the…

— Scott Gottlieb

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas,…

— Sean M. Carroll

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

— Joseph Beuys

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

— Gustave Le Bon

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

— Anonymous

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

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

— William Whewell

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

— George Smoot

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

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

— Sybrina Durant

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

— Marti Noxon

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Robert B. Laughlin

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

— Hans Jürgen Eysenck