Science Quotes · Page 225

We should create energy policies based on science, not politics.

— Nancy Mace

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

— Jerry A. Coyne

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

— June Goodfield

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

— Richard P. Feynman

“The radiation detoxification process exists in nature. It is called: Hibernation.”

— Steven Magee

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

— Bill Nye

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

— Francis Bacon

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

— Elbert Hubbard

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't…

— Thomas Keating

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind…

— Harold E. Varmus

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

— Anonymous

Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for…

— Thomas Starr King

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

— Carroll Quigley

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a…

— Richard Dawkins

Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there.

— Lauren Beukes

“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully…

— Max Planck

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are…

— Simone Weil

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to…

— Madeleine Albright

“She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever…

— Nenia Campbell

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and…

— Paul Tillich

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the…

— William James

“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that…

— Thomas Aquinas

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a…

— Alexander von Humboldt

If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.

— Abhijit Banerjee

“I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.”

— David Sarnoff

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

— Samuel Butler

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

— Hans Eysenck

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

— C. D. Broad

“ Ronald Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.”

— Anders Hald

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

— Christopher Hitchens

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

— Jacque Fresco

True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

— George Dantzig

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

— Erwin Schrodinger

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

— Francois Arago

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

— Christina Applegate

I was always into science fiction and I always liked sci-fi. Aliens! Spaceships! And all that stuff.

— Marky Ramone

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.

— Ben Stein