Science Quotes · Page 223

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

— Donald Cram

“If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.”

— Jez Humble

Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud.

— Lawrence Shepp

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

— William Shakespeare

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

“The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking. —Albert Einstein”

— Edward B. Burger

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

— Paul Allen

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory…

— Ernst Mach

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language…

— Robert Graves

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with…

— Mark Lawrence

“One price of demystifying the universe is that science, unlike religion, asks only how, not why. As to the purpose of things,…

— Charles Krauthammer

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

— Ray Bradbury

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been…

— Werner Heisenberg

“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery…

— Aldous Huxley

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the…

— Charles Lyell

“... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this…

— Christopher

“Whose interest does ignorance serve? If we humans bear, say, hereditary propensities toward the hatred of strangers, isn’t self-knowledge the only antidote?…

— Carl Sagan

“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination…

— Michael Denton

“I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social…

— Muffy Mead-Ferro

For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took…

— Herman Boerhaave

“...the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it…

— Max Weber

“Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping…

— Diane Ackerman

“Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone…

— Anonymous

“Scientists should think like poets and work like accountants.”

— E.O. Wilson

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

— Joseph Parker

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

— Claude Bernard

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

— Kenneth Appel

“It just makes more sense if you base your personal life logic on science.”

— Steve Merrick

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

— Rudolf Virchow

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

— Jaak Panksepp

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

— Terry Pratchett

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

— Arthur Eddington

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

— Joseph Silk

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

“I became well known for researching what the corporate government did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

— Jamie Dimon

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

— Jules Verne