Science Quotes · Page 220

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

— James Jeans

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

— Nicolas Roeg

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

— Tech N9ne

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

— Elizabeth Moon

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.”

— Carl Sagan

That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use…

— Peter Ritchie Calder

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

— Hippocrates

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I…

— Elie Wiesel

Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and…

— Arthur William Galston

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

— Anonymous

“Some people think we’re made of flesh and blood and bones. Scientists say we’re made of atoms. But I think we are…

— Ruth Stotter

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You…

— Stephen Hawking

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science…

— Ian Stewart

There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

— Thomas Andrews

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye…

— Norbert Wiener

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less…

— James Clerk Maxwell

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

“The mountains of Ararat are part of the larger mountain chain called the Alpide Belt or Alpine-Himalayan Belt. This range extends from…

— Ken Ham

“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important…

— William Shockley

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken…

— Nikola Tesla

“This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether…

— Ralph Alfred Habas

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

— Steven Weinberg

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

— Martha Albrand

“In my laboratory, I use science to measure love. Whatever you do, don’t drink out of beaker number two.”

— Jarod Kintz

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

— Garrett Hardin

“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.”

— John Stuart Mill

“it doesn't take rocket science to realize your devine purpose”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.”

— John Lubbock

“I remember science class if chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine”

— Aesop Rock

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

— Randall Munroe

People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

— John Twelve Hawks

“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.”

— Bill Bryson

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

— Charles H. Townes

“I heard he was banished to Belvaille for breaking technology restrictions like the mad scientist he was.”

— Anonymous

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

— Richard Summerbell