Science Quotes · Page 275

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

— Damon Lindelof

“Scientists have been trying to unify Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.”

— Lee Vickers

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

— Chuck Berry

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

— Peter Agre

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

— Stephen Jay Gould

In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.

— Conan O'Brien

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

— Nicolas Cage

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the…

— Joe Rogan

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

— Hannes Alfven

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case…

— Nils Bohlin

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and…

— Julian Huxley

“If you are with egoism then you are the doer and if you are egoless, then vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidence) is the…

— Dada Bhagwan

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of…

— Marston Bates

The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply…

— David Papineau

Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“If all you do is look out for yourself, then... you're not really looking out for yourself. Taking care of those that…

— José N. Harris

Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus…

— Karl Popper

“There is a current perception is that science has overtaken Philosophy and in effect rendered Philosophy irrelevant. Science, when sufficiently abstracted, approaches…

— Tom Golway

The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to…

— Richard Dawkins

Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians…

— William M. Fowler

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I…

— Vinod Khosla

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

— Isaac Asimov

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm…

— Pauley Perrette

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

— Gale Norton

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

— Salvador Dali

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”

— James Madison

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

— James Bridie

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

— Lee Smolin

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

— Achim Steiner

“The Professor shook his head. ‘On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.”

— Robert Rankin

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

— Jim Peebles