Science Quotes · Page 143

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

— Richard Owen

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

— Gabriel Marcel

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge…

— George Coyne

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

— Sandra Faber

“Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become. ☥”

— Luis Marques

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

— Jason Patric

The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made…

— Anonymous

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional,…

— Gautama Buddha

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

— Caroline Myss

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit…

— Galileo Galilei

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not…

— H. L. Mencken

Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious…

— Nicholas Meyer

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their…

— Auguste Comte

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre…

— Carl Sagan

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing…

— John F. Kennedy

I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,…

— Balfour Stewart

“Whether you believe in God or are an atheist, you cannot deny that the empirical facts of science have nothing to do…

— Carlton D. Pearson

“Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses…

— Edward O. Wilson

Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities…

— Ian Hacking

It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may…

— Karl Popper

Writing a screenplay's not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, 'I…

— Robert Ben Garant

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?” “Science,” Peabody said. “You can’t live without it.”

— J.D. Robb

“It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.”

— Bradley Steffens

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

— G. H. Hardy

“Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

— Edward Victor Appleton

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The only way you are going to die and wake up someplace else is with science, not wishful thinking.”

— Victor YatesCrayne

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

— George W. Bush

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover

Sci-Hub arose as a tool to be used in a Russian-speaking online research community.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

— John Phillips

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

— Stephen J. Dubner

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

— Will Cuppy

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn…

— Jacques Barzun