Science Quotes · Page 635

I guess again I find myself playing the somewhat grumpy scientist. Strange how that happens.

— David Hewlett

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

— Carl Sagan

“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand,…

— Betty Friedan

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of…

— Marvin Minsky

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with…

— Kit Williams

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]”

— Francis Bacon

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the…

— Rita Dove

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow…

— William Crookes

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

— Anonymous

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

— Steve McConnell

“Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles,…

— Liu Cixin

“Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our…

— Jean Baptiste Perrin

“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by…

— Richard Dawkins

“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved…

— Will Durant

“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of…

— Alasdair Gray

“I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope,…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

— Lord Byron

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

— Sigmund Freud

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

— Conor Lamb

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

“Eat healthy. Work hard. Stay strong. Worry less. Dance more. Love often. Be happy...”

— Sukhraj S. Dhillon

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of…

— Bill Gates

Our greatest theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, recently declared that humans have no more than a hundred years to get off this planet…

— Rick Tumlinson

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall…

— John Aubrey

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is…

— Florence Nightingale

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical…

— Philip Kitcher

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to…

— Kathryn Schulz

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

— Joseph Roux

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the…

— Marcello Malpighi

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for…

— Melvyn Bragg

“Children’s bodies and brains are still in an early developmental stage of growth until at least the age of three. To inject…

— Stephen Heartland

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it…

— Ben Miller

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious…

— William Gilbert

For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are…

— Vandana Shiva