Science Quotes · Page 171

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

— Brian Greene

Witchcraft to the ignorant, … Simple science to the learned.

— Leigh Brackett

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

— John Charles Polanyi

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

— Ernst Mach

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

— Ambrose Bierce

“History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.”

— Steven J. Carroll

“No god ever came down and wiped out a disease. Science did. A vaccine will.”

— Nick Annis

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

— Marston Bates

“in the last 50 years. Scientists have examined the signaling of single neurons in great detail, revealing much about the electrochemical”

— Anonymous

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the…

— Anonymous

“This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a…

— Christopher Essex

The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where…

— Gavin de Beer

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of…

— Jacob Bronowski

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for…

— Stephen Hawking

The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building…

— Michael Tanner

The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice…

— Scott Gottlieb

My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate…

— H. Robert Horvitz

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a…

— Alan Alda

“In this modern era of cosmology, evolution, and the human genome, is there still the possibility of a richly satisfying harmony between…

— Francis S. Collins

“few days earlier, Trump’s team of data scientists, squirreled away in an office down in San Antonio, had delivered a report titled…

— Joshua Green

“...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of…

— Ray Bradbury

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital…

— John F. Tierney

I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“It may be in the ubiquitous phenomenon of terrorism that one can most easily see how universal emotional processes transcend the conventional…

— Edwin H. Friedman

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or…

— Linus Pauling

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

— Philip Pullman

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

— William Buckland

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

— George Porter

I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing…

— Anonymous

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

— Jeb Bush

Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice.

— Kristine Carlson

“In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.”

— Mark Warner

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

— Connie Willis

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

— Leo Errera

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

“Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself. ☥”

— Luis Marques

“curing autism would be the same as “curing” science and art.”

— Kristine Barnett

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

— Anonymous