Science Quotes · Page 183

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

— Heidi Hammel

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

— Jill Stein

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

— Alfred North Whitehead

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

— Karl Popper

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

— Fred Alan Wolf

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

— Richard P. Feynman

“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.”

— Robert E. Howard

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively…

— George E. P. Box

Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word:…

— Hope Jahren

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain…

— Hans Y. Tammemagi

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

— Peter Agre

“the “data scientist,” which combines the skills of the statistician, software programmer, infographics designer, and storyteller.”

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being…

— Shiv Nadar

I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while…

— Michael Rosbash

As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

“It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an…

— Ernest Cline

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian…

— Harry S. Truman

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers…

— Norman Borlaug

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would…

— Christine de Pizan

It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been…

— Alexander Fleming

Sometimes people get upset when you tell the truth, when you share the facts as science dictates.

— Vivek Murthy

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

— Steve Simmons

“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

— Deanna L. Lawlis

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

— Luc de Clapiers

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

— George Zebrowski

I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.

— Ana Kasparian

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

— Arie de Geus

“The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is…

— Douglas Adams

“Science Fiction is what they promised; Cyberpunk is what we got.”

— Sean Kennedy

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

— Hypatia

A true democracy starts by separating state and bad science.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

— Carl Sagan

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

— James Heywood

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

— David Letterman