Science Quotes · Page 131

You are the reason scientists decided that we descended from apes.

— Curly

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

— Jill Lepore

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

— Lewis Mumford

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

— Doug Benson

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

— James Black

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

— Leo Errera

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

— Donna J. Haraway

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

— Charles Caleb Colton

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in…

— Chauncey Wright

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all…

— John Stuart Mill

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably…

— J. G. Ballard

“Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar…

— Rex Stout

“Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different…

— Anonymous

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm…

— Clifford Stoll

“Scientific axiology arises from the unfolding of the following axiom: Value is the degree in which a thing possesses the set of…

— John William Davis

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the…

— Vincenzo Galilei

“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a…

— John Playfair

On fait la science avec des faits, comme on fait une maison avec des pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas…

— Henri Poincare

The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre…

— Adolphe Quetelet

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a…

— Brian Aldiss

“At the time, most bodies worked on by anatomists were cold indeed. They were brought to Edinburgh from all over Britain --…

— Ian Rankin

“Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who produces the…

— Cordelia Fine

Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation…

— Douglas Houghton Campbell

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

— Enrico Fermi

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

— Greg Graffin

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

— John Armstrong

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

— Victor Vasarely

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

— George Bernard Shaw

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

— Rumi

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

— David Pogue

I am not knocking the Net as a research tool. It is the best, and obviously, life has never been better for…

— Sucheta Dalal

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

— George Bernard Shaw

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Don't blame a person for the wrongdoings;Both He and You are Homo-sapiens.”

— Waqas Bin Ehsan

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

— Robert Orben

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

— Michael Crichton

“we dont choose, we just react... blue plus yellow makes green”

— George Dimitreas

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

— Terry Pratchett