Science Quotes · Page 205

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

— David Crane

“They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.”

— Jostein Gaarder

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

— Spyridon Marinatos

There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

— Gabe Polsky

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

— Ogden Nash

To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.

— Thomas Kuhn

“…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.”

— Yann Martel

“Science (vignan) means that which frees one just by ‘knowing’. Nothing needs to be done. Knowledge that keeps working on its own…

— Dada Bhagwan

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive…

— Lewis Thomas

If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do…

— Mark Walport

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

— Ron Eglash

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled…

— Aristotle

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The investigation described in the subsequent pages bears close relation to three sciences. It was approached by the author from the standpoint…

— Anonymous

“In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true.…

— Michio Kaku

“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well…

— Christine M. Korsgaard

“Great kings and queens know to learn from those who had have great personal success in the area they taught. If you…

— Kailin Gow

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a…

— Adam Sedgwick

“Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some…

— Dave Eggers

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot…

— Lord Kelvin

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

— Ben Stein

“Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.”

— Steven Magee

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

— Sonu Nigam

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

— Mark Twain

“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”

— Brandi L. Bates

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

— Khalil Gibran

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

— Peter J. Carroll

“See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.”

— Jim Butcher

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

— Frederik Pohl

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

— Mario Bunge

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

— Michel de Montaigne

I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,

— Christine Lagarde