Science Quotes · Page 161

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

— Gustave Flaubert

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

— Joss Whedon

“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”

— Francis Bacon

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

— Douglas Adams

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

— Martin Rees

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

— Anonymous

“In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline…”

— Aldrin Mathew

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

— Elizabeth Moon

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

— Albert Einstein

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without…

— Bertrand Russell

“once i asked myself ," what is time? " , in a second or two , i find the answer - "…

— Suman Kundu

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to…

— Richard P. Feynman

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than…

— Paracelsus

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

— Walter Lang

“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind…

— Douglas Adams

“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing…

— Immanuel Kant

I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too…

— Hazel Henderson

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of…

— Oscar Wilde

I love that the work that we do is so vital to science. We're in a lot of ways at the scientific…

— Jensen Huang

Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened…

— Camille

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford…

— George Carlin

[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial…

— William DeVries

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

— Rene Redzepi

Between 1995 and 1997 I was a researcher for a Labour MP. And looking back I realise I wasn't a very good one.

— Jesse Armstrong

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

— Bill Gates

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

— Charles Duhigg

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's…

— Frances Arnold

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

“The way I see it, religion is no more inherently evil than science is. It’s just a matter of who’s using it…

— Scott Meyer

“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.”

— Amit Kalantri

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

— Rosalind Franklin

We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.

— May-Britt Moser

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

— Thomas Huxley

“When a toxic employer damages your health, publicly hunt them down with science.”

— Steven Magee

“A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same”

— Anonymous

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

— George Sterling

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

— Matt Ruff