Science Quotes · Page 256

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

— Rod Serling

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

— Stephen Hawking

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

— Peter Medawar

You know, Hobbes, some days even my rocketship underpants dont help.

— Calvin

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

— Bob Dylan

“Research is supposed to be additive. Science doesn’t actually work in breakthroughs the way we’re all taught.”

— Hank Green

“I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural…

— Michael Shermer

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

“Scientist and smart fellow learner-of-stuff, want to do samurai-monster training with us? We intend to become dangerous.”

— Laini Taylor

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more…

— Eric Kandel

In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not…

— Peter Singer

“The more that science unravels about the wonder of life and the universe, the more i am in are of it. the…

— Anonymous

My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

— Cynthia Breazeal

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only…

— Annie Besant

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also…

— Edward Einhorn

All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers…

— Stephen Hawking

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held…

— Carl Sagan

“For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix…

— Christopher S. Hyatt

The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made…

— William Jennings Bryan

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as…

— Criss Jami

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know what pheromones are! But that’s mumbo jumbo. You’re just horny, I’m just horny. It’s not science.”

— Lauren Dane

“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.”

— Emmet Densmore

“Cooking food is a science but making people hungry is an art”

— Myra Yadav

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

— Anonymous

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

— Robert K. Merton

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

— Jacque Fresco

“Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it”

— Bashir F. Biodun

“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to…

— Fred Hoyle

I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

— Randy Pausch

“He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap.”

— Nancy Farmer

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

— William H. Calvin

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

— Marshall McLuhan