Science Quotes · Page 137

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.”

— Herman Melville

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— Anonymous

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A reflection of good science is that a step forward opens up a lot more questions.

— Anonymous

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

— Joseph Priestley

“Dr John Nash Ott is the greatest USA scientist you have probably never heard of.”

— Steven Magee

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only…

— Dave Barry

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

— Aristotle

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

— Hippocrates

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

— Allan Sandage

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter…

— John Campbell Shairp

“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon…

— Harry M. Collins

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of…

— Robert Nozick

All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to…

— Clifford Stoll

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind…

— Conor Oberst

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just…

— Emma Caulfield

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea…

— Luther Burbank

I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova'…

— Miriam Shor

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just…

— E. O. Wilson

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

— Jon Stewart

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

— Carl Sagan

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

— Sal Khan

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

— Edwin Land

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

— John Carmack

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

— Hope Jahren

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

— David Penhaligon

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

— Albert Camus

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

— Paul Davies

I am uneasy about having scientific exploration depend on profit-making companies.

— Carolyn Porco

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

— Ernest Rutherford

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

— David Lee

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

— James Inhofe