Science Quotes · Page 168

“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.”

— Theodore Von Karman

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”

— Stephen Hawking

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

— Samuel Butler

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

— Anton Zeilinger

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

— Thomas Szasz

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

— Claude C. Hopkins

Find out if youre still human, observe yourself from another planet

— Anonymous

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

— Richard P. Feynman

“There must be an ability to pass long hours in study and research with pleasure even though some of the effort will…

— Edward O. Wilson

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who…

— Stanley B. Goldenberg

“I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach…

— Steven Pinker

In our country the moral science is weak. But these problems should be dealt by us. Why should it come from the…

— Sanjay Mishra

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction.…

— Ann Druyan

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of…

— LeVar Burton

“I had been right to return our relationship to the language of science; love followed in science’s footsteps with Albert. My”

— Marie Benedict

For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because…

— Gregory Petsko

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even…

— Barack Obama

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their…

— Noam Chomsky

The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic…

— Fritz Muller

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make…

— Stephen Hales

“It would be indeed unusual if it turned out that the set of orders that our mind is able to construct and…

— Stanisław Lem

“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good…

— Carl Sagan

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

— Thomas Jefferson

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

— Noam Chomsky

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

— Isaac Asimov

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

— Brian Herbert

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

— Carl Sagan

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is…

— Nils Bohlin

“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.”

— Immanuel Kant

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

— Wernher von Braun

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

— Forest Whitaker

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

— Carl Sagan

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

“Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws.”

— Neil Shubin