Science Quotes · Page 194

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

— Albert Einstein

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

— Alexis Carrel

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

— David Brin

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

— Anonymous

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

— Imre Lakatos

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

— Neil Armstrong

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with…

— Robin G. Collingwood

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and…

— Simon Newcomb

'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake'…

— Rudolf Virchow

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own.…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an…

— William Stanley Jevons

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There…

— Wynton Marsalis

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never…

— Alexander Pope

It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence,…

— Richard Thaler

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of…

— Joseph Rotblat

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate…

— Thomas Jefferson

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means…

— Maria Montessori

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and…

— Anonymous

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the…

— Guglielmo Marconi

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of…

— Paul Di Filippo

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ...…

— John of Salisbury

“Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.”

— D.A. Blankinship

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

— Fritjof Capra

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

— Edmund Husserl

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

— Rachel Riley

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

— Walt Whitman

“Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne”

— A.K. Luthienne

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

— Pierre Duhem

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

— Mike Johanns

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“...only one man lived who could understand Gibbs 's papers. That was Maxwell , and now he is dead.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

— Konrad Lorenz

“One will no more find God in science than he will find Colonel Sanders in his plate of chicken.”

— J. Chace Gordon

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

— Anatole France

“Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.”

— Harry Harrison

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

— Robert Reed

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

— May Sarton