Science Quotes · Page 133

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

I'm a science geek. I even have a T-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark chart of the periodic elements.

— Peter Krause

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

— Albert Einstein

“As a scientist I have come to learn that information is only as valuable as its source.”

— Dan Brown

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

— Owen Chamberlain

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

— Peter Hammill

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of…

— Ronald Reagan

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place…

— Rachel Carson

India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of…

— Narendra Modi

We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science…

— Anthony Daniels

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly…

— Michael Specter

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire…

— Dean Koontz

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences…

— Herbert Simon

I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got…

— David Grinspoon

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before.…

— James Hilton

“In the scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some- times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulated belief. I believe…

— John Polkinghorne

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For…

— Bill Nye

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…

— Alfred Binet

“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain…

— Peter D. Mitchell

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal…

— Noam Chomsky

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

— Brian Andreas

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

— Karl Hess

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

— Konrad Lorenz

“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith but by verification. —Thomas Huxley”

— Peter P. Marra

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he…

— Chief Seattle

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

— Paul A. Baran

“The Metal Horn Unicorns and their elemental friends are techno-magical.”

— Sybrina Durant

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

— Lawrence Wright

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

— James D. Watson

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

— Heraclitus

I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

— Mae Jemison

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

— Carl Sagan

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

— Lewis Howard Latimer