Science Quotes · Page 157

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

— Michael Behe

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

— Lisa Joy

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

— Alexander Dubcek

“Each one will always find in his age a reasonable reason to doubt”

— Frederico Rochaferreira

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib

— Frank Herbert

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

— Gregory Meeks

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

— Michael Crichton

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

— Isaac Asimov

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our…

— Freeman Dyson

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in…

— E. O. Wilson

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible…

— David Letterman

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

— Ian Hacking

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

— Joseph Rotblat

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could…

— Jimmy Swaggart

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms…

— John Rhys-Davies

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress…

— Anonymous

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“What if the theories in psychology that dominate our mainstream culture are flawed, rather than the people they diagnose? That we close…

— Dr. Kristen Lee

When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

“I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke,…

— Carl Sagan

I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science…

— Allen W. Wood

“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is…

— Karl Popper

Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

“There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.”

— Luis Marques

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

— Francis Collins

I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses.

— Anthony Doerr

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science.

— James Russell Lowell

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.

— Thomas Jefferson

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

— Henri Poincare

“[T]he craft of science . . . is an oral tradition as much as a written one.”

— Konstantin Kakaes

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

— Bertrand Russell

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

— Freeman Dyson

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.”

— Steven Magee

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

— Carl Sagan

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

— Henry David Thoreau

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

— James Randi

“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.”

— Bilal Hussain