Science Quotes · Page 226

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

— Jules Verne

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

— David Eagleman

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

“THE FIRST STEP of forecasting the future requires a trip to the fringes of science, technology, design, and society,”

— Amy Webb

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities.

— James Clerk Maxwell

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

— Wilfred Trotter

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

— Thomas Carlyle

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology?…

— Coretta Scott King

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a…

— Robert Lanza

Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we…

— Annalee Newitz

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why…

— Audrey Hepburn

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The…

— Albert Einstein

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also…

— Brit Marling

The team at the Space Telescope Science Institute has a demonstrated record of meeting the high-performance challenges of operating the Hubble Space…

— John M. Grunsfeld

“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an…

— Lewis Thomas

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting…

— Jim Clyburn

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is…

— Francis Bacon

As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt…

— Jimmy Carter

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem…

— George Polya

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making…

— Robert Winston

“Be around those who crave new galaxies in you. The light through your veins. Poetic science. Wider vision. Gentler strength. The moon…

— Victoria Erickson

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build…

— Margaret Mead

“I don't believe in science. Science is our defense against belief.”

— J. Allan Hobson

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things,…

— Richard Dawkins

Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

— B. J. Palmer

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

— Stephen Colbert

What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

— Arthur Eddington

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

— Adolf von Baeyer

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

— Gavin de Beer

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

— Emily Dickinson

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

— James Hutton

One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

— Ian Hacking

“Politicized science is like a prostitute with an STD. You know she has been fucked by a dirty politician.”

— A.E. Samaan

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

— Charles Darwin

Any one cant prove that God doesn't exist but science makes God unnecessary

— Stephen Hawking

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

— Joan Robinson

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

— Walker Percy

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

— Henri Poincare