Science Quotes · Page 201

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

— Robert Reed

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that…

— William Shakespeare

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

— Erwin Chargaff

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

— Helena Christensen

“To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.”

— Stuart Sutherland

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

— Louis Pasteur

“when people debate faith vs. science they’ve already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it’s found, and that of…

— Rob Bell

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they…

— Imre Lakatos

I studied what the Germans call the Naturwissenschaften, the natural sciences. Everything from biology to geology. How the clouds are formed, how…

— Vaclav Smil

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.”4”

— Masha Gessen

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery"…

— Anonymous

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a…

— Fabiola Gianotti

The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of…

— Gerald Weinberg

“Why Does Mirroring Work? Scientific research suggests ‘mirroring’ techniques works because of the mirror-neurons which are fired in our brains when we…

— Susan C. Young

“As the statistician George E. P. Box wrote, "All models are wrong, but some models are useful." What he meant by that…

— Nate Silver

“Science must be antidogmatic. Only the church can be dogmatic. It would be better for the church to become more scientific and…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, know forensic science, and are…

— Geoff Johns

“A molecule of hydrogen…whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way,…

— D. T. Max

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

— Richard J. Roberts

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

— Richard Dawkins

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

— Israel Gelfand

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

— Susan Hockfield

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

— Frederik Pohl

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

— Mario Bunge

The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

— Albert Einstein

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.”

— Anne Rice

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.

— Dale Jamieson

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Science knows no country because it is the light that iluminates the world

— Louis Pasteur

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

— Blaise Pascal

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

— Al Gore

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

— Francis Bacon