Science Quotes · Page 101

It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

— Bill Bryson

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

— Wolfgang Ketterle

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and…

— Michael Ruse

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to…

— Norman Cousins

I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of…

— Jane Goldman

I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was…

— Dean Wareham

Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the…

— Peter Buffett

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch…

— Francis Bacon

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

— Winston Churchill

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

— Viola Davis

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“To philosophize truth is unphilosophy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing…

— Stanley Schmidt

“Those that entered the ark in pairs were for the purpose of repopulating their kind after the Flood. This is why the…

— Ken Ham

As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.

— Bill Foster

People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.

— Simon Singh

We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.

— Dale Jamieson

“Research is supposed to be additive. Science doesn’t actually work in breakthroughs the way we’re all taught.”

— Hank Green

Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into…

— Bonnie Hammer

“She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn’t, she knew, terribly sophisticated of…

— Joe Hill

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

— Scott Nicholson

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean…

— Jeremy Rifkin

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

— Kip Thorne

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity,…

— Louis Pasteur

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the…

— Warren E. Burger

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

— Damon Lindelof

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

— Brian Cox

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

— Henry Norris Russell

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter…

— Ronald W. Dworkin

“all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps…

— Dan Brown

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

— Bertrand Russell

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all…

— Walter Isaacson

I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about…

— Nancy Pelosi

For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I…

— Michio Kaku

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the…

— Harold Pinter