Science Quotes · Page 221

“I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism.”

— Ken McClure

“No one is right or wrong. The circumstances define the nature of human being.”

— V Partap Singh Salathia

“I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.”

— Kevin J Anderson

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

— Steven Wright

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

— William A. Dembski

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

— John Ruskin

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

— Jeri Ryan

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

— Jack Vance

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the…

— Margaret Mead

I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…

— Galileo Galilei

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work…

— John D. Barrow

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

— Robert Lanza

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want…

— Howard Nemerov

“It is, but we can only help people by giving less than we take away from them. We enlarge the oasis by…

— Alasdair Gray

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much…

— Marjory Stephenson

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,…

— Francis Bacon

I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation…

— Julie Plec

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to…

— Carl Sagan

The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in…

— Werner Heisenberg

We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something…

— John Mayow

“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what…

— Joseph Campbell

Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

— Larry Wilmore

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

— Thomas Hobbes

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

— Albert Einstein

“Just because you deny facts and science doesn't mean they aren't true”

— Johnny Corn

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

— Christine Lagarde

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

— Alton Brown

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

— Frederick Lenz

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

— Peter Deunov

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

— Edward Abbey