Science Quotes · Page 198

The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

— Charles Darwin

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

— Arie de Geus

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

— Conor McGregor

“You call it shame and regret. I call it research and development.”

— Cara Addison

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

— Harold E. Varmus

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

— Baz Luhrmann

“f you love science and equality but hate leprosy (and who doesn’t?), Alice Ball is 100 percent your kind of gal.”

— Sam Maggs

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid…

— Paul Davies

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science…

— Ann Druyan

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and…

— Marilynne Robinson

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a…

— Alan Alda

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual.…

— Phyllis McGinley

“Scientific progress isn’t a parade of miraculously wrong theories—it’s an optimistic snowball, gathering the structure of reality as it rolls.”

— Amanda Gefter

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be…

— David Brin

“The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.”

— Terrance Dicks

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know…

— Anonymous

A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an…

— Albert Einstein

The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but…

— Florence Bascom

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very…

— Paul Stamets

Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty…

— Hermann Hankel

Science and medicine and technology have all produced the breathtaking advances with which they have gifted the human race, only because they…

— Neale Donald Walsch

It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to…

— Rush Limbaugh

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from…

— Greg Graffin

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

— David Douglass

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

— Alexander Pope

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

— James Merrill

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.”

— Santosh Kalwar

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.”

— Jonathan Sacks

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

— Martin Gardner

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

— Hippocrates

“It is a science fact that some animals do dream. It'll someday lead them to places better than zoo.”

— Toba Beta

“Science never destroys wonder, it only shifts it higher and deeper”

— J. Arthur Thompson

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

— Nicola Cabibbo

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

— Edmund Beecher Wilson

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

— William Shakespeare