Science Quotes · Page 164

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

— Andre Breton

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

— Leon M. Lederman

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

— Dan Lipinski

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

— Thomas Sowell

“Science’ (vignan) means all kinds of things come together and then change. Every moment change is taking place.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

— Marshall McLuhan

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

— Carl Safina

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author…

— Douglas Preston

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its…

— Emile Durkheim

“Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience…

— George Eliot

If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report…

— Carl Hart

The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on…

— Bill Nye

But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy,…

— Fisher Stevens

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he…

— Peter Abelard

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

— James A. Garfield

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were…

— Bill Bryson

“You begin to see the point? Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all…

— C.S. Lewis

Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth…

— Charles Babbage

“Our disagreement rises with the timing of the formation of these rock layers! Where the evolutionists say the fossiliferous rock layers “were…

— Ken Ham

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will -…

— Justine Bateman

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use…

— Roy Crowson

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“And if several of the more difficult sciences are still [pg 023] in so defective a state; if not only so little…

— John Stuart Mill

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

— Oscar Wilde

“Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes? ☥”

— Luis Marques

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

— Octavia E. Butler

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“My Faith in science is the belief of all that is …"noticeable" ...”

— Hesham Nebr

“It is clear that ignorance is not that hate each other … but that we continue in the same direction”

— Hesham Nebr

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

— Joseph Glanvill

“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”

— Gordon White

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

— Allen Ginsberg

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

— David Hume

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

— John Charles Polanyi

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

— Michio Kaku

“Clearly divine grace and natural knowledge never diminish liberty, but rather increase and strengthen it.”

— René Descartes

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

— Rob Corddry