Science Quotes · Page 244

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Without problems solutions don't exist,if they do exist then they are useless”

— Themba Alex Khumalo

“As a scientist in the know, I am legally required to protect the next generation.”

— Steven Magee

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

— Michael Polanyi

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

— George Santayana

“The research is very clear: around 50% of distance runners at any given time are injured.”

— Matthew Silver

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

— Frances Arnold

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

— Richard Dawkins

“The field of firearms ballistics, like many applied sciences, is populated by scrupulous practitioners and passionate quacks. At times it can be…

— C.J. Chivers

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the…

— Martin Luther

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…

— Paul Di Filippo

“In this kind of social climate, it’s easy to grow up thinking that women don’t get involved in tech or science or…

— Sam Maggs

“My electromagnetic radiation research was done during the Obama administration and my high altitude disease research occurred during the Trump administration.”

— Steven Magee

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

— Allan Sandage

“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly…

— Jennifer Ouellette

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will…

— Isaac Asimov

The science behind Interstellar is interesting, because some of it is absolutely real astrophysics and orbital mechanics, some of it is theoretical…

— Julie Payette

“The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed.…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing,…

— Mark Pocan

“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random…

— Richard Dawkins

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,…

— Alton Brown

The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows…

— Marston Bates

...to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support…

— Jack Straw

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

— Brian Greene

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

— Damon Knight

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

— Alan Turing

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

— Pierre Bourdieu

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

— Lindsay Wagner

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

— Thomas Aquinas

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

— Thomas Sowell

“Real leadership is treating your least favorite employee the same as your favorite”

— Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in…

— Anders Sandberg

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

— John Dryden

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

— Immanuel Kant

[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']

— Edmund Muskie

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

— George Sarton