Science Quotes · Page 246

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

— David Lee

How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?

— Woody Allen

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

— Rebecca Goldstein

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

— Albert Einstein

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

— Donald Sadoway

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

— Sidney Blumenthal

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse…

— Woodrow Wilson

I like greenery, nature, I don't like littering the streets. The progress of science and technology comes at a cost and I…

— Anupam Roy

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their…

— Hari Kunzru

I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and…

— Robert Picardo

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

— Jay Leno

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it…

— Anthony Standen

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can…

— Walter Lang

“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or…

— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

“Scientists still know very little about how the olfactory cortex in the brain converts impulses from receptors into conscious senses of smell.…

— Jo Nesbø

Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the…

— Jacques Vallee

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human…

— Charles Stross

“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable…

— Niall Ferguson

If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…

— Joseph Paxton

I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a…

— Martha Nussbaum

A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that…

— Michio Kaku

A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progress. For them and…

— Ariel Sharon

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

— Thomas Huxley

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

— Jane Goodall

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

— Tom Morello

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

— Hendrik Lenstra

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

— Isaac Asimov

“Science will always be the source of authority for those who wish to remove God from their thinking.”

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

— Harlan Ellison

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

— David C.H. Austin

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ”

— Gustave Flaubert

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.”

— Arthur Kornberg

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

— Octavia Butler

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

— Abraham Flexner