Science Quotes · Page 142

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

— Thom Mayne

“In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)”

— Anonymous

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

— Paul Tillich

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

— Henry David Thoreau

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

— Peter L. Berger

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and…

— Charles Kingsley

“Our celebrated democratic institutions tackle the issue of hazardous science with a deafening silence. There is no such issue!”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And…

— Robert Winston

To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is…

— Edward Augustus Freeman

My father is a scientist , my mother a teacher, my brother is a Naval Officer and I am an entertainer -…

— Abhinav Shukla

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior…

— Daniel Nathans

Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about…

— Francis Crick

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established…

— Anonymous

I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine…

— Bill Nye

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in…

— Julian Coolidge

“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless.…

— Albert Einstein

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other…

— Jean Piaget

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to…

— Robert Reich

There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us…

— Ray Bradbury

“Pseudoscience is almost always recognizable from a distance, and easy to confirm on close examination. Science is, however, not immune from hubris,…

— K Lee Lerner

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

— Isaac Asimov

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

— Louis Kronenberger

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove…

— Allen Klein

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

— Miguel De Unamuno

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

Deep neural networks are responsible for some of the greatest advances in modern computer science.

— Jeff Dean

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

— Adam Savage

“The human curiosity is as if an ant which seeks knowledge and walks over the books of science.”

— Toba Beta

My father is a geologist and he really thinks that scientists are going to save the world, so he wanted me to…

— Lucy Worsley

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

— Guglielmo Marconi

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

— Kurt Gödel

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

— Konrad Lorenz

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

— Stephen Hawking

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

— Kevin Sabet

“The meaning of life can best be simplified as gratifying a personalized set of instincts.”

— Eric Hirzel