Science Quotes · Page 221

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

— Albert Einstein

“Researchers at Yale University have shown that educated people are more unshakable in their convictions than anybody.”

— Rutger Bregman

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

— Michel de Montaigne

“✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.”

— David L Lloyd

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

— Stephen Hawking

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

— Robert X. Cringely

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do…

— Linus Pauling

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see…

— Noam Chomsky

All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of…

— John Henry Comstock

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of…

— John O'Keefe

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it.…

— Anonymous

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. ……

— Emilio G. Segre

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We…

— Eugenie Scott

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale…

— Will Durant

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of…

— Frederick Sanger

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no…

— Sigmund Freud

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It…

— Anonymous

“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor…

— Marston Bates

I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way…

— Alan Lightman

Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process…

— Benjamin Thompson

Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get…

— David Gerrold

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

— Richard P. Feynman

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

— Luis Walter Alvarez

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

— David Brin

No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

— Mary Somerville

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

— Anonymous

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

— Richard Hatch

“All scientist are oglers, i suppose, the sensuousness is a sine quo non of modern technology”

— APORVAKALA

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

— Henrik Ibsen

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

— Jane Goodall

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

— Ray Bradbury

...but you call it science. I come from a land where they are one and the same. -Thor

— Thor

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

— Charles Hard Townes

“Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.”

— Luis Marques

Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.

— Anonymous

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

— Lee Strobel