Science Quotes · Page 169

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

— Charles Darwin

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

— Robert J. Sawyer

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

— Baz Luhrmann

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

— Harold E. Varmus

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

— Conor McGregor

“You call it shame and regret. I call it research and development.”

— Cara Addison

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

— Arie de Geus

“f you love science and equality but hate leprosy (and who doesn’t?), Alice Ball is 100 percent your kind of gal.”

— Sam Maggs

I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really…

— Amy Hardie

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical.…

— Seth Shostak

“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can…

— Ray Bradbury

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as…

— Rod Serling

You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life…

— Edward Everett Hale

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

— Aldo Leopold

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of…

— Philip Kitcher

“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take…

— Siméon Denis Poisson

“What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad or…

— Liza Wieland

In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in…

— Nancy Gibbs

I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on.…

— Scott Heim

“Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in…

— Mark Ireland

“God is a concept more than anything else. The idea of God or about God, as it functions in religions, doesn’t deal…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists…

— Anonymous

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

— James Merrill

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

— David Douglass

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

— Alexander Pope

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.”

— Carl Sagan

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

— Heraclitus

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

— Charlotte Gerson

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

— Benjamin Franklin

If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked?

— Henny Youngman

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

— Donald Knuth

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

— Lord Byron

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science.

— Liu Cixin

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to…

— Ridley Scott