Science Quotes · Page 224

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

— Imre Lakatos

It would encourage young researchers if we can show that there is a big return for good research.

— Tasuku Honjo

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

— George E. P. Box

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.

— Colin Firth

Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

— Alonzo Bodden

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

— Rudy Rucker

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

— Erwin Schrodinger

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”

— Mark Lawrence

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of…

— Mae Jemison

“what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of…

— Ted Chiang

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and…

— Rosalind Franklin

Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from…

— Trevor Paglen

I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with…

— Oren Etzioni

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

— Ada Lovelace

Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have…

— Fran Lebowitz

“Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not…

— Kristen Ashley

I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we…

— Lawrence Jordan

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or…

— Anonymous

We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is…

— Samuel Wilks

“While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science,…

— Naomi Oreskes

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man…

— Benjamin Franklin

Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all…

— Stanislao Cannizzaro

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

— Anthony Standen

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

— Thomas Carlyle

“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

— Kevin Sessums

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

— Jonathan Swift

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

— Ludwig Boltzmann

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

— Albert Einstein

The best movie for me is a science fiction movie, the best books for me are science fiction books. I love this…

— John de Lancie

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

— Victor Hugo

The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

— Lorenz Oken

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

— Mark Z. Danielewski

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

— Lewis Thomas

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

— Deborah Birx