Science Quotes · Page 207

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

— Charles Darwin

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

“The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

— Ralph Bakshi

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

— Tom Wolfe

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

— D. H. Lawrence

The only projects you ever saw were at your highschool science fair.

— Immortal Technique

“Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you’re not in control, doesn’t it? I should’ve considered that.”

— Victoria Dahl

“[W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]”

— Jasper Rees

“I’ve learned that most problems aren’t rocket science, but when they are rocket science, you should ask a rocket scientist.”

— Scott Kelly

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a…

— William Wordsworth

“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the…

— Sebastian Faulks

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a…

— Thomas Huxley

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's…

— Eileen Pollack

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

— Bertrand Russell

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a…

— Agatha Christie

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume…

— Buzz Aldrin

“Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its…

— Stephen Hawking

“Every advancement in human history, every scientific discovery, every artistic masterpiece, every new idea has come from an individual looking at the…

— Kate Scott

Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way.…

— Wilder Dwight Bancroft

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain…

— Anonymous

“Nutritionists are alternative therapists, but have somehow managed to brand themselves as men and women of science. Their errors are much more…

— Ben Goldacre

“In 2009, for example, a team of scientists at MIT succeded in implanting a wireless electrode into a zebra fish. With the…

— Carl Zimmer

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

— Ernest Rutherford

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

— Vaclav Klaus

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

— Eugene Ionesco

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

— Thomas Jefferson

“for it is the crucial word, energy, that links the scientific and the spiritual.”

— Matthew Krajewski

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

— Bertrand Russell

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

— Lisa See

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

— John F. Kerry

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

— Mark Twain

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

— Benjamin Banneker

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

— Evan Esar

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

— Carl Sagan

Guess what? Most of the people of North Carolina know global warming is junk science.

— Mark Robinson

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

— Heidi Hammel

“His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

— Richard Dawkins