Science Quotes · Page 253

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

— John A. McDougall

“The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.”

— Carl Sagan

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

— Michael Crichton

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

— Kate Clinton

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

— Stephen Hawking

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

— Leo Tolstoy

“And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science…

— Bill Bryson

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would…

— Arthur Eddington

You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a…

— Tim Ward

Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's…

— Martin Berkeley

“Did you know that a recent scientific study has shown that 92% of children who never tidied their rooms achieved better grades…

— James Warwood

“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack…

— Carl Sagan

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at…

— Andrea M. Ghez

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books,…

— Matt Groening

“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that…

— L.A. Paul

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,…

— Seneca the Younger

The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we…

— Jean-Marie Lehn

“‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being…

— Richard Morris

It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how…

— Kyle Hill

“As people across the Arab world are all dealing with their politics, revolutions, human rights issues and uprisings, science speaks to all of…

— Anonymous

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.…

— Avi

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

— Timothy Radcliffe

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

— Patricia Cornwell

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

— David Chalmers

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

— Neil Armstrong

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

— Timothy Morton

“Scientist recreates pandemic flu virus that killed 500,000 people”

— Anonymous

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

What is love? In math, its a problem. In history, its a battle. In science, Its a reaction. But in my heart,…

— Anonymous

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

— James W. Pennebaker

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— John von Neumann

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

— Lancelot Hogben

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

— Isaac Asimov

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

— Nicholas Stern

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

— Charles Lindbergh