Science Quotes · Page 192

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

— Ambrose Bierce

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

— Mark Twain

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

— Max Weber

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for…

— Poonam Dhillon

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons.”

— James Rozoff

I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.

— Heidi Hammel

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and…

— Alan Davies

I think the scientists have really caught the attention of the people of this country, and of course, they elected representatives by…

— Barbara Boxer

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of…

— Raymond Chandler

“Marketing is the art and science of creating need. You can reach out to people to do this, but it’s far more…

— Alan Weiss

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of…

— Eugene Wigner

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

— Lewis Mumford

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather…

— John Desmond Bernal

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of…

— Michael Pollan

“Sophisticated human beings were on hand to see this volcano's convulsions, they were able to investigate the event, and they were able…

— Simon Winchester

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept…

— Paul Bloom

And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by…

— Robert Boyle

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was…

— Tom Stoppard

'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow…

— Joe Lieberman

“Each volcano is an independent machine—nay, each vent and monticule is for the time being engaged in its own peculiar business, cooking…

— Clarence Edward Dutton

The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the…

— Gustave Eiffel

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

— Dov Davidoff

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

— Martin Luther

“That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.”

— J D Robb Fantasy in Death

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

— Paul Davies

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

— Moby

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

— Ani DiFranco

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

— Steve Jurvetson

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

— Philip Jose Farmer

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

— Robert Burns

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

— Will Smith

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

— Muriel Lester

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

— Robert Jastrow

“If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

— Charles Francis Richter

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

— Simone Weil

Only Jesus, God, Apostles told us what was 100% true, everything else is just questionable such as science.

— Charles Brown