Science Quotes · Page 217

Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

By the time we made the discovery in 2015, the National Science Foundation had put close to $1.1 billion into it.

— Rainer Weiss

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

— James Dyson

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

— Anonymous

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

If Religion dies all we have left science to lead us...If science dies religion goes down with it~ J.H.G

— Jonas Gonzalez

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

— John William Draper

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready…

— Laura Kelly

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the…

— Derek Walcott

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or)…

— Ernst T. Krebs

“It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and…

— P.W. Atkins

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human…

— E. O. Wilson

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it…

— Penelope Lively

“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to…

— Herbert Butterfield

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ…

— Urbain Le Verrier

Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that…

— Francis Spufford

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The…

— Pranab Mukherjee

“If you think atomic explosions in Asia wouldn't affect Americans, consider this. A study published in Scientific American in 2010 looked at…

— Steve Sheinkin

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“...Heisenberg removed the conceit that the workings of Nature should necessarily accord with common sense.”

— Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

— Samuel Johnson

“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. ”

— Leon Cooper

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

— Judith Viorst

The art of doing science is doing the important things first.

— Sydney Brenner

“Secretaries of Astronautics don’t have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

— Jacob Grimm

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

— Emile Durkheim

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

— John Carmack

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer

I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.

— Terry J. Lundgren

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

— Carl Sagan

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

— Ambrose Bierce

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

— Ann Druyan

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

— Michio Kaku