Science Quotes · Page 279

It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!

— Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

“He was an enigma, John Pritkin: a mad scientist with gun calluses and old scars and even more secrets than me.”

— Karen Chance

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

— Simon van der Meer

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

— Laurie Hernandez

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

— Imre Lakatos

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

— Neil Armstrong

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

— David Brin

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that…

— Anonymous

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This…

— Ben Goldacre

To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by…

— Lewis Mumford

“Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better…

— Jules Verne

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“I tested the brackets by hitting them with rocks. This kind of sophistication is what we interplanetary scientists are known for.”

— Andy Weir

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

— Luke Scott

Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'

— Conan O'Brien

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd…

— Bertrand Russell

“Anybody who has done high school physics knows Newton’s Third Law. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You…

— Sean J. Halford

“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays…

— Homer W. Smith

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum…

— Martin Rees

“Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.…

— Niall Ferguson

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and…

— Max Planck

Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“In asking me to contribute a mite to the memorial to Gutenberg you give me pleasure and do me honor. The world…

— Mark Twain

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

— Anonymous

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

— Alexis Carrel

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

— William James

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

— David H. Hubel

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.”

— George Head

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

— Paul Dirac

“Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.”

— Wolf Pascoe

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

— Isaac Newton

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

— Daniel Dennett

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

— William James

“This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called vignan (science). Religion keeps changing, science does not change.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

— A. S. Byatt

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

— David Hume