Science Quotes · Page 208

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

— Frederick Lenz

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and…

— Margaret Atwood

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

— Richard P. Feynman

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

— Tom Noddy

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

— Lawrence Durrell

“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the…

— Margaret Mead

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the…

— Lukas Foss

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing…

— Michael Faraday

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

— Anonymous

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to…

— Albert Einstein

“In trying to remove from Christianity everything that could possibly be objected to in the name of science, in trying to bribe…

— J. Gresham Machen

“Adolf Hitler declared war in 1941. By 1942, Allen Dulles was moved to Switzerland for the purpose of rounding up and importing…

— Mae Brussell

Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic…

— Thomas Piketty

The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…

— John Stuart Mill

“You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers…

— Marvin Minsky

The president [of American research institute] can act as the CEO and make a firm decision about the long-term development of the…

— Henry Rosovsky

“...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.”

— Kevin Fong

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

— Orson Scott Card

“Sorry for the delay," Vogel said. "I was required to make a bomb.”

— Andy Weir

“One competent scientist is worth more than a thousand evangelists.”

— Al Stefanelli

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

— Michael Dorn

Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

— David Allen

“Science doesn’t listen. Science has mice growing out of its ears. Wait, I mean human ears growing out of its mice.”

— Jarod Kintz

I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.

— Roger Helmer

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

— Taslima Nasrin

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

— Charles Lyell

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

— C.P. Snow

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

— Richard E. Byrd

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

— Howard Schultz

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner