Science Quotes · Page 202

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

— Samuel Karlin

“Life is perpetual. Though, it is ourselves which harvest these energies that perpetuate us in a positive direction.”

— Robert Ogawa

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

— Frederick Lenz

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

— Fritjof Capra

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a…

— Abraham Maslow

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

— Brian Cox

“Is it hot in here? I’m sweating like a Christian in science class.”

— Aaron B. Powell

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we…

— Margaret Atwood

“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.…

— Erasmus Darwin

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save…

— Joel Sartore

“began by pointing out the small mountain of research that suggested that expert judgment was less reliable than algorithms.”

— Michael Lewis

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over…

— Rainer Weiss

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars,…

— Anonymous

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with…

— Philip Emeagwali

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out…

— Ben Goldacre

The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare…

— Peter Friedman

Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part…

— Mae Jemison

Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the…

— John F. Kennedy

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that…

— Antonio Gramsci

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war…

— Edward Gibbon

Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

— Isaac Asimov

“Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.”

— Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace

Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

— Harrison Ford

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

— Miguel de Unamuno

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

— Monique Coleman

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

— Scott Cunningham

Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

— Abdus Salam

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

— James Bryant Conant

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

“BY INVESTIGATING GOD’S MAJESTIC AND AWESOME CREATION, SCIENCE CAN ACTUALLY BE A MEANS OF WORSHIP. —FRANCIS COLLINS”

— Louie Giglio

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

— Frank Zappa

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

— Arthur Balfour

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

— Paul Di Filippo