Science Quotes · Page 252

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

— Rudolf Hilferding

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

— Umberto Eco

“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

— Robert J. Sawyer

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

— John Dewey

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

— Ivan Pavlov

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

— Nancy Pearcey

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

— Sushmita Sen

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous…

— Isaac Newton

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…

— Hugh Miller

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern…

— Richard Goldschmidt

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we…

— Erich Fromm

When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my knee, and I…

— Cary Fukunaga

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds…

— Rudy Rucker

“Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either through science or technology, they can be proven as truth.”

— S.E. Meyer

There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam... I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything…

— Marion G. Romney

“Point” of creation, like a Big Bang, is the passage through Zero between the immaterial, “timeless,” and “spaceless” Absolute into the Universe…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that…

— Carl G. Fisher

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He…

— Galileo Galilei

“Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override…

— Toni Sorenson

“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to…

— Lev Grossman

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling…

— Thomas Huxley

“As for the other aspect, creative or signed enunciation, it is clear that scientific propositions and their correlates are just as signed…

— Janis Tomlinson Félix Guattari Graham Burchell III Gilles Deleuze

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

— Christian Konrad Sprengel

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

— Wilson Mizner

“What might sound like science fiction elsewhere in the world at DARPA was future science.”

— Annie Jacobsen

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

— Martin H. Fischer

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

— Neal Stephenson

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

— Aubrey Eben

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

— Henry David Thoreau

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

— Niels Bohr

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

— Maimonides

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...

— William Shakespeare

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

— Nicola Sturgeon

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

— John Wilkins