Science Quotes · Page 220

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

— Theodore Hesburgh

“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.”

— Charles Hermite

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”

— John Green

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

— Jacob Bronowski

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

— John M. Grunsfeld

“Mankind will experience a knowledge shock when being forced by need to use new science.”

— Toba Beta

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

— George William Foote

“You are one of the unfortunate ones whose body decays rapidly in the face of radiation poisoning. You hang your head over…

— A.J. Lauer

The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they…

— Sydney Brenner

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend…

— Clara Shih

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The science of absolutism (vitaraag vignan) is such that it cannot be understood by anyone. Even it's manifestion within me has not…

— Dada Bhagwan

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all…

— James Hansen

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of…

— Upton Sinclair

“Before the work of Georg Cantor in the nineteenth century, the study of the infinite was as much theology as science; now,…

— Jordan Ellenberg

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life…

— Stephen Law

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists…

— Claude Bernard

“Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that…

— Bertrand Russell

“No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers--not scientists or…

— David Darling

“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be…

— Graham Hancock

“Free will allows infinite numbers of human stories to be written in which a personal you is the main character. The sciences,…

— John Taylor Gatto

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

— Albert Einstein

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

— Alan Taylor

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston”

— Gothelf, Jeff

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

— Chris Carter

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

— George Santayana

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).”

— Bill Bryson

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

“Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.”

— Heinz R. Pagels

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

— Jon Stewart

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

— Ray Bradbury

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

— Alfred North Whitehead

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

— James Dyson

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

— Natalie Angier

I never forget a gay face. I have what scientists call a homographic memory. -Lee McDermott

— Desperate Housewives

“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Carl Sagan