Science Quotes · Page 146

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

— Jonah Lehrer

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

— John Charles Polanyi

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.”

— David Baldacci

“fun to use my science knowledge to uncover evidence at crime scenes.”

— Stacy Claflin

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

— Bill Watterson

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to…

— Richard Dawkins

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve…

— Myles Munroe

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

— Paul Dirac

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has…

— John F. Kennedy

“You’ve never been ugly.” The boy looked down at his hand filling the blank spaces in a science fiction scene. “Women treat…

— Janet Fitch

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust…

— George Orwell

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which…

— Krista Tippett

It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny…

— Michio Kaku

To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not…

— Ian Plimer

Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in…

— Hugh Miller

“Teachers seeking to 'teach the controversy' over Darwinian evolution in today's climate will likely be met with false warnings that it is…

— David K. DeWolf

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science,…

— Sue Perkins

The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and…

— Anonymous

Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction.…

— William Golding

“Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .”

— Jojo Moyes

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

— Percival Lowell

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

— Albert Einstein

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

— Robert Watson-Watt

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

— Jacob Bronowski

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

— Lillian Russell

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

— Gerard Debreu

“Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

— Alan Perlis

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

— Anonymous

“You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.”

— Orson Scott Card

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

— Anonymous

“The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.”

— A.E. Samaan

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson