Science Quotes · Page 272

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

— Jane Goodall

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

— William Bernbach

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

— Randolph M. Nesse

“The scientific community has lost its original sense of responsibility.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

— Freeman Dyson

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

— Mortimer Adler

“Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

I'm a fan of hard science fiction, which is science fiction that is possible.

— Sal Khan

“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age…

— Carl Sagan

“You shouldn’t make jokes about these things,” she said. “Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best…

— Ben Aaronovitch

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…

— Michael Shermer

People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.

— Simon Singh

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a…

— Lewis Thomas

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for…

— Albert Einstein

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as…

— Lewis Mumford

“One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were…

— Peter Agre

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be…

— Lev Shestov

“I was uncovering cognitive abilities in Alex that no one believed were possible, and challenging science’s deepest assumptions about the origin of…

— Irene M. Pepperberg

“many scientists have interfered with science in precisely the way courts always worried tissue donors might do. “It’s ironic,” she told me.…

— Rebecca Skloot

“until the archives of the Masonic lodges became accessible, researchers were heavily reliant on memoirs and documents confiscated and published by the…

— Niall Ferguson

Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a…

— Ken Liu

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

— Charles Francis Richter

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

— Thomas Kuhn

“Listen to me. When a physicist starts talking about souls, we are officially off the map.”

— Claudia Gray

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

— David Eller

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

— Jim Warner

What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

— Peter Agre

My stepmom is one of the leading researchers on lupus in the world.

— Jeff Vandermeer

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

— Thomas Young

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

— Arthur Koestler

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

— Charles Hard Townes

People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.

— Adam Frank

“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.”

— Heath White

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

— Michael Behe

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

— J. Arthur Thomson

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi