Science Quotes · Page 240

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

— Thomas Malthus

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

— Isaac Watts

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

— Shawn Amos

If I'm hungry, I eat. If I'm not hungry, I don't. There's not too much science behind it.

— Mat Fraser

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

— Niels Bohr

“The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.”

— Lara Santoro

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

— William Bernbach

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of…

— Thomas Huxley

Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do…

— Richard Hamming

“Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative.”

— C. W. Dalton

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from…

— Milton Friedman

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when…

— Jill Lepore

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with…

— N. K. Jemisin

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

— Carl Pomerance

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a…

— George Lucas

Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer…

— Carol Leifer

“While the Soviets simply arrested and deported some of the scientists – typically taking their families along to serve both as hostages…

— Charles River Editors

“The precise structure and description of the Galaxy is quite complicated with many unsolved problems. However, from the point of view of…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

“There is a great quantity of knowledge that can be obtained through a scientific quest. But that knowledge is flawed, and can…

— Calvin W. Allison

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference…

— Samuel Pepys

“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual … The only words…

— G.K. Chesterton

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,…

— Neil Postman

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other…

— Samuel Johnson

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

— Stephen Hawking

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

— David Amerland

Science "knows" it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop.

— Dara O Briain

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

— Marvin Minsky

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

— Harold Wilson

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

— Ambrose Bierce

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

— Caleb Carr

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

— Barbara Block

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

— Anton Chekhov

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

— E. O. Wilson

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

— John Ruskin

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

— Leo Tolstoy

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

— Robert J. Sawyer