Science Quotes · Page 215

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

— Stanislaw Lem

“Wasting time is like wasting your money and half of your life.”

— Dr. Poison King

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

— Georges Seurat

“Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.”

— Gary Hopkins

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

— John M. Grunsfeld

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

— James Anthony Froude

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

— Bindi Irwin

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the…

— H. G. Wells

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is,…

— Talcott Parsons

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where…

— Al Gore

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful…

— Edgar Mitchell

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore…

— Jacob Bronowski

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

— David O. McKay

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

— Rudolf Virchow

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what…

— Annie Besant

Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because…

— Bill Nye

“More is not more. Researchers at Saint Louis University have found that ten to eighteen minutes is the length of time past…

— Bill McGowan

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various…

— Ambrose Bierce

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and,…

— Aristotle

“Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men…

— C.S. Lewis

“Notwithstanding the intense pressure on faculty members to publish, nationwide surveys indicate that they value teaching as highly as scholarly research.6 For…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

— Robert Winston

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

— Fritz Leiber

We can't say, 'Science, science, science,' and then say, 'Except in unrealistic climate talking points.'

— John Fetterman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

— Helen Sharman

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

— George Lakoff

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

— Albert Einstein

“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of…

— Alasdair Gray

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

— Frank Luntz

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

— Emily Blunt

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

— Edward Gibbon

Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.

— Richard Hamming

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

— John Ortberg

Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

— Ben Miller

“if by chance this were the last of its race, would it not be better to spare it—in the interest of science?”

— Jules Verne

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley