Science Quotes · Page 263

I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies - they are so predictable.

— Gaspar Noe

“If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.”

— Alastair Agutter

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

— Albert Einstein

“Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political, and social puzzle in history.”

— Gun Gun Febrianza

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

— Sigmund Freud

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

— Frances Moore Lappé

“The Sun, the Stars, the Seas with all other things were made by the Divine Being, God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and…

— Annalee Newitz

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up…

— Anonymous

“Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles,…

— Gary Hopkins

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that…

— Henry Tizard

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll…

— Michio Kaku

It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible…

— Vasco Ronchi

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

There's a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow…

— Bill Foster

“He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and…

— Joanne Harris

“My dear nephew was only in his sixth year when I came to be detached from the family circle. But this did…

— Caroline Lucretia Herschel

“Some clinicians and researchers believe that andropause is primarily the result of our loss of testosterone. It is clear to me that…

— Jed Diamond

“It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...]…

— Nikola Tesla

Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to…

— John Playfair

I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played…

— Al Gore

To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production…

— Albertus Magnus

“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.”

— Ray Bradbury

Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.

— Carl Hart

“In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother. ”

— Santosh Kalwar

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

— George Iles

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

— Boris Sidis

“In darkness lies a mystery that has the power to shine brighter than true light. ☥”

— Luis Marques

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

— Raymond Tallis

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

— Lynn Nottage

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

— Frederik Pohl

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

— Frederick Lenz

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

— George Bernard Shaw

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

— Victor Vasarely

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

— John Armstrong

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

— Greg Graffin