Science Quotes · Page 267

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

— George Iles

“It’s pretty confusing.” “Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from.”

— Robyn Mundell

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

— Stephen Jay Gould

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

— Greg Gutfeld

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

— Jimmy Swaggart

“Don’t be such a coward, Mark, he told himself. This is for science.”

— George R.R. Martin

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data…

— Anthony Goldbloom

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two…

— James Surowiecki

Look, I'm not a water expert. I'm not a scientist. But I've been to Flint. I've seen what's happening. We have a…

— Rasheed Wallace

Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I…

— Aubrey McClendon

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their…

— George Iles

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation…

— Roger Bacon

“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of…

— Brenda Maddox

“The human condition to ignore or dispel ideas is an admission of fear by oneself and refusing to seek out the phenomena…

— Alastair Agutter

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely…

— Arthur Koestler

Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The…

— Robert Fogel

“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All…

— Dave Barry

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it…

— Ludwig von Mises

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy…

— Clyde Tombaugh

“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

— Robert Fulton

“you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true”

— Avis Williams

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

— Igor Sikorsky

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

— Goldie Hawn

I do not find my Faith in others, in science, the stars, the heavens; I find it, within myself.

— Eric Nickel

“Nell Armstrong was a demi-god, he succeded travelling to space, after numerous deaths.”

— Michael Author

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

— Democritus

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

— William Golding

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

— James Randi

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

— Augustus De Morgan

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Is it wrong to eat meat or to use animals for scientific research?”

— Open University

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

— Joseph Crowley

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi