Science Quotes · Page 283

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

— Anaximander

“Life is like a dry handjob. Just when it starts getting good, it’s already over.”

— Jayme K

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

— Michael Rosbash

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth…

— Francis Bacon

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

— Konrad Lorenz

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

— Francis Bacon

“Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.”

— Amit Ray

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

— Bill Nye

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could…

— Margaret Atwood

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences,…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“why fur-farmers and so-called laboratory scientists are repaid with violence - it is because they deal in violence themselves and it's the…

— Morrissey

Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters,…

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head…

— Henry Rollins

“In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will…

— Eugene Wigner

The thing I learned was the lack of coordination in research projects in the world and therefore you will have gaps in…

— Leanne Pooley

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role…

— Yuan T. Lee

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that…

— Michio Kaku

Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life…

— Max Horkheimer

“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall…

— Alfred Bernhard Nobel

“Today, the 4-billion-year-old regime of natural selection is facing a completely different challenge. In laboratories throughout the world, scientists are engineering living…

— Yuval Noah Harari

And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives…

— Lucretius

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered…

— Carl Sagan

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that…

— George Soros

“I am not postulating a “God of the gaps”, a god merely to explain the things that science has not yet explained.…

— John C. Lennox

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

— Alison Jolly

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.

— Terry Pratchett

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

— Hilary Mason

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

— Peter Medawar

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

— Terry Pratchett

Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

— Archilochus

“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.”

— James Gavin

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

— May Sarton

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

— Robert Reed

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

— Peter David

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

— Vint Cerf

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

— Jonathan Rauch

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

— Mario Vargas Llosa