Science Quotes · Page 211

“Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.”

— Seanan McGuire

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

— Cynthia Kenyon

“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

— Karen Armstrong

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

— Alfred Nobel

“But, could he truly call himself a scientist if he were to pass up such a unique opportunity?”

— Christa Faust

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

— Rob Lowe

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we…

— Simone Weil

“As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into…

— David Christian

Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man…

— Hippocrates

“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only…

— Maude Royden

What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God…

— Paul Halmos

In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the…

— Noam Chomsky

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

— Pete Holmes

“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent…

— Carl Sagan

“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…

— Charles Lyell

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can…

— Max Planck

“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a…

— Don Borchert

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology…

— Andrew Lang

For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book…

— R. A. Torrey

[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one…

— Vannoccio Biringuccio

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

— James Wan

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

— David Koepp

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

— Jaggi Vasudev

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

— Anonymous

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

— Anonymous

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

— Sebastian Arcelus

“science applied to social problems and backed by the whole force of the state,”

— C.S. Lewis

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

— Deepak Chopra

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

— Prentice Mulford

“Perhaps you'll gave to kiss him again, if you're not sure. Gather more evidence. In the name of science.”

— Rhiannon Thomas

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

— Herbert Simon

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”

— James Cambias

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

— Jose Mourinho

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

— David Baltimore

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.”

— Jules Verne