Science Quotes · Page 195

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

— Jack Horner

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

— John Lennox

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

— Helen Fisher

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

— Anonymous

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

— Henry David Thoreau

The wonderful thing about science is that it can even explain things that nobody needs to know.

— Anonymous

“Right. Isn’t that how science works?” Redwing grinned. “If you don’t understand, do an experiment.”

— Gregory Benford

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's…

— Don Hertzfeldt

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the…

— Jerome Ravetz

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to…

— Robert Winston

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the…

— Thomas Szasz

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

— Aristotle

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to…

— William Stanley Jevons

Crack the science of loyalty at scale for local business, and that becomes something that can add a huge amount of value…

— Seth Priebatsch

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade…

— Henry Rollins

It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or…

— Rebecca Goldstein

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.'…

— Seth Shostak

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But…

— Richard P. Feynman

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have…

— G. H. Hardy

Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…

— Henri Poincare

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to…

— William Harvey

“there are no objects except particular ones and no science except of the general”

— Gérard Genette

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

— L. P. Jacks

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

— Douglas Yates

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

— Nhat Hanh

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

— Albert Einstein

“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

[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

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

— Fabiola Gianotti