Science Quotes · Page 120

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

— Humphry Davy

The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.

— W. R. Thompson

The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.

— Frederick Mosteller

“Richard Feynman hailed “distrust of experts” as a cornerstone of science,”

— Max Tegmark

Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.

— Heather Mac Donald

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

— Edward Forbes

“It doesn't take rocket science to realize your divine purpose”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

— Rene Dubos

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to…

— John Herschel

“The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full…

— Stephen Hawking

Scientific monitoring is going to be terrifically important, because whatever steps we take ... we will have to monitor those steps in…

— Naomi Oreskes

Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out,…

— Roy Jones Jr

The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.

— M. S. Swaminathan

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh…

— Richard Dawkins

Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed…

— Jean Chretien

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in…

— Jerry Moran

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists…

— George Mikes

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild…

— Isaac Asimov

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western…

— Cynthia Breazeal

“A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is,…

— Carl Sagan

As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is…

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues…

— Kapil Sibal

“To state there is no need for a creator or God if there is no time is meaningless. Because the Absolute is…

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never…

— Claude Bernard

Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.”

— Richard Dawkins

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

— Prince Philip

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

— Stephen Hawking

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

— Robert Bunsen

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

— John Deacon

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

— Nelson Mandela

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

— James Rollins

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

— Igor Sikorsky

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

— Robert Fulton

“you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true”

— Avis Williams

“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

— James Randi