Science Quotes · Page 194

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'

— George Smoot

“The ironic part about all this was that it wasn't the first time I'd been nearly digested. But that's another story.”

— K.A. Applegate

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

— Emily Dickinson

“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”

— Jonathan Haidt

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

— Richard P. Feynman

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

— Thomas Kuhn

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

— J.B.S. Haldane

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science…

— James Sanborn

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no…

— Augustus De Morgan

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he…

— Matthew Modine

I got fascinated with all of this work in terms of spirituality, philosophy, behavioral science when I was around 18 years old.…

— Jay Shetty

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished.…

— Gottlob Frege

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as…

— Mark Twain

“Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that biological systems are designed,…

— William A. Dembski

“It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on…

— Lev Shestov

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of…

— Michael Polanyi

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new…

— Carl Sagan

Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the…

— Leon M. Lederman

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at…

— Denis Parsons Burkitt

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power…

— Michael Pollan

The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know…

— George Perkins Marsh

“Faith is the exact opposite of science and yet they peddle it as a virtue. Religion”

— Noah Lugeons

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

— Amit Priyavadan Mehta

Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.

— Robert Picardo

“Science gives man what he needs. But magic gives him what he wants.”

— Tom Robbins

“God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate.”

— Bashir F. Biodun

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

— James Clerk Maxwell

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

— Henry Taube

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

— Ambrose Bierce

For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip: Why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for…

— Jack Handey

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

— Hermann Minkowski

Laws of physics don't necessarily apply to real-life political situations.

— Amit Shah

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

— Gabriel Marcel

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

— A. J. Jacobs

Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“The desert seems vast, even endless. And yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.”

— Joseph Fink