Science Quotes · Page 193

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

— Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar…

— William Beveridge

“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.”

— Cesar Nascimento

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

— Alexander Pope

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

— Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

“It is impossible to do science in the absence of a pre-existing theory. (p.125)”

— Kathryn Schulz

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

— Albert Camus

“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or…

— Derek Thompson

“We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its…

— Ayn Rand

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so…

— Joseph Kosinski

“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.”

— Bill Joy

“Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.”

— Allegra Goodman

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age…

— Julia Robinson

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations…

— Vivian Gornick

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“However, I have a stronger hunch that the greatest part of the important biomedical research waiting to be done is in the…

— Lewis Thomas

“as I intend, you should begin to look with different eyes at your immediate surroundings, seeing not just leaves but yourself and…

— Steven Vogel

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their…

— Anthony Standen

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want…

— Marvin Minsky

The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible…

— Glen Rambharack

Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be…

— Peter Ferrara

“We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped…

— Philip Dick

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

— Robert Evans

“If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.”

— George Head

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

— Paul Dirac

“Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.”

— Wolf Pascoe

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

— David H. Hubel

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

— William James

I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.

— William James

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

— Daniel Dennett

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

— Isaac Newton

It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!

— Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

— Laurie Hernandez

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

— Simon van der Meer

“He was an enigma, John Pritkin: a mad scientist with gun calluses and old scars and even more secrets than me.”

— Karen Chance