Science Quotes · Page 219

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

— John Charles Polanyi

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“fun to use my science knowledge to uncover evidence at crime scenes.”

— Stacy Claflin

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

— Bill Watterson

“You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.”

— David Baldacci

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

— Albert Einstein

“Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article “The Luck Factor,” says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back…

— Shawn Achor

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet…

— Andrew Wiles

“The problem was one Yerushalmy and Hilleboe were all too aware of, and one that continues to pollute science more than half…

— Denise Minger

Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of…

— Vine Deloria Jr

We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of…

— Anatoly Berezovoy

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed…

— Frederick Lenz

Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to…

— Caroline Fraser

“Despite scientific evidence that (except in rare medical cases) anything other than breastmilk interferes with the establishment of breastfeeding and may do…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Preserving, protecting, and restoring our waters are tasks for many lifetimes, and sometimes the effort can seem overwhelming. But as long as…

— Wallace J. Nichols

When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to…

— Francis Collins

“Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be…

— John Green

“...any object functioning within the physical laws of any particular universe does not have free will ... In terms of human beings,…

— Mark J. Solomon

“The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply…

— Hal Herzog

It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .”

— Jojo Moyes

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

— Percival Lowell

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

— Robert Watson-Watt

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

— Jacob Bronowski

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

— Lillian Russell

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

— Gerard Debreu

“Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

— Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

— Alan Perlis

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

“You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.”

— Orson Scott Card

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.”

— A.E. Samaan

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

— Anonymous

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

— Marco Tempest