Science Quotes · Page 258

“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

— Dan Aykroyd

“Your scientists were so caught up up in wether they could or not, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

— Jurassic Park

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

— Edmund Husserl

“As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.

— Todd Young

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

“Scientists now know, too, that huge dust storms like the ones that recently blanketed Arizona, northern China, Australia, and other arid areas…

— Linda Marsa

When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion;…

— Rod Stryker

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to…

— Michele Bachmann

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of…

— Barry Commoner

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got…

— William Gibson

“On the international playing field, Connecticut students were at, or near, the top of the world in math, reading, and science. Quite…

— Terry Marselle

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot…

— Michael Shermer

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make…

— Joshua Lederberg

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just…

— E. O. Wilson

“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all…

— Carl Sagan

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,…

— Arthur Balfour

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“I have a disdain,” he says, “for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use,…

— Norman Doidge

Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage…

— Tony Rothman

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

— Doug Benson

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

— James Black

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

— Jill Lepore

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

— Lewis Mumford

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

— Arthur Kornberg

You are the reason scientists decided that we descended from apes.

— Curly

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

— Enrico Fermi

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

— Donna J. Haraway

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

— Leo Errera

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

— Earl Wilson

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

— Isaac Asimov

“Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.”

— Robert C. Martin

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

— Gelindo Bordin