Science Quotes · Page 114

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

— John Charles Polanyi

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

— Polykarp Kusch

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

— Anonymous

“I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

— Ingrid Bengis

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

— Bernie Siegel

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

— Maria Mitchell

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those…

— Nevill Francis Mott

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict…

— Ian Bremmer

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes,…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and…

— Jonas Salk

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a…

— Clive Barker

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,…

— Ada Lovelace

When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,…

— Louis Pasteur

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not…

— Henri Poincare

While 15-year-olds in China blitz their peers in the West in math, reading and science, we are warping the minds of our…

— Miranda Devine

The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying…

— Linus Pauling

“It is possible that those strange sentient beings of the far-future cold universe will find contemplating a warm universe such as ours…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline…

— Noah Webster

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

— Anonymous

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

— Oliver Sacks

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

— C. S. Lewis

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

— Anonymous

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

— Karl Pearson

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

— Buck Henry

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

— Mark Shuttleworth

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

— Horace

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

— Edward Teller

“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.”

— Homer W. Smith

“Best to flee now, before the pitchforks and torches and scientists come calling.”

— Rachel Caine

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

— Anonymous