Science Quotes · Page 276

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

— Ambrose Bierce

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

— Pam Ayres

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

— Arthur Keith

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

— Alice Hoffman

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”

— Marie Lu

“This ‘Akram’ science is such that not even God can question you!”

— Dada Bhagwan

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature,…

— Nalini Nadkarni

“With her magic, and a new method of medicine called science, practiced by the Brotherhood of Moe, Cornelius meant to become immortal.…

— Alexandra Casavant

“Our body dries out with every passing year; newborns are about 75 percent water, not much different from an average potato.”

— Neil Shubin

“The mind of the most rational among us may be compared to a stormy ocean of passionate convictions based on desire, upon…

— Bertrand Russell

You can only utter things proved by science. Do you realize that would shut down the entire climate change community? Because none…

— Rush Limbaugh

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of…

— Bertrand Russell

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

— Frederick Lenz

Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of…

— Dalai Lama

“Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? Why…

— Anne Frank

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or…

— Brenda Ueland

I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made…

— Simon Jenkins

In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph…

— William Stanley Jevons

It's very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, 'Everyone is against us.…

— J. D. Vance

Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If…

— Vera Nazarian

China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and…

— Wen Jiabao

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

— Vangelis

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.

— Edmund Berkeley

Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth.

— Narendra Modi

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

— Sally Ride

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

“Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.”

— David Sedaris

“Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...”

— Joseph Banks

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Religious view and scientific view are differ and highly complicated on comparism

— You'ng Micky M'yzzy

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

— Anonymous

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

— Harlan Ellison

“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.”

— Ernst Mayr

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

— Joyce Brothers

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

— Naomi Oreskes