Science Quotes · Page 284

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or…

— Linus Pauling

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

— Marston Bates

“No god ever came down and wiped out a disease. Science did. A vaccine will.”

— Nick Annis

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

— Ambrose Bierce

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

— Ernst Mach

“History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.”

— Steven J. Carroll

Witchcraft to the ignorant, … Simple science to the learned.

— Leigh Brackett

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

— John Charles Polanyi

Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes…

— Ryan Holmes

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the…

— Anonymous

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain…

— Charles Petzold

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and…

— Lewis Mumford

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…

— Charles Babbage

“I couldn't join drama club like Riley. No, I had to become an underground mad scientist. I had to be mother****ing Indiana…

— Magdalene Visaggio

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

— Erykah Badu

“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of…

— Sigmund Freud

The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I…

— Hope Jahren

“If people say They don't Believe on God or Jesus then answer me this! who's name do they call out when they…

— Lawrence A Bergeron

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his…

— Kurt Vonnegut

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the…

— Max Weber

“The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump's depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster. 'Charge…

— Steven Pinker

I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that…

— Bernie Sanders

“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect…

— Albert Einstein

Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice.

— Kristine Carlson

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

— Jeb Bush

I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing…

— Anonymous

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

— William Buckland

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

— George Porter

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

— Philip Pullman

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.”

— Florence Williams

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In science, time is the real obstacle. Given unlimited time, everyone can learn all the secrets of the universe.”

— Mai Jia

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

— Tahereh Mafi

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging…

— Henry Taube

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

— Ricky Gervais

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

— Jeff Goldblum