Science Quotes · Page 225

“reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.”

— Peter Boghossian

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

“Nobody knows how to do it except the Egyptians. Even modern science.”

— J.D. Salinger

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

— Rick Harrison

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

— John Noble

“Buck’s girlfriend went by the porny name of Miracle though she had a master’s in computer science from Florida State.”

— Carl Hiaasen

Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow.

— Theresa Tam

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing…

— Sharon Moalem

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts.…

— Bruce Lee

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will…

— Ayn Rand

Attempting to predict shoulder and elbow issues due to extensive innings early in a pitchers career is an inexact science.

— Gabe Kapler

“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their…

— Robert Whitaker

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get…

— Bill Bryson

What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket…

— James Lee Burke

Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life,…

— Arthur Compton

The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast…

— Joseph Priestley

[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction…

— Osborne Reynolds

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts…

— Steven Pinker

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it…

— Northrop Frye

“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,…

— Charles Babbage

No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or…

— Ann Coulter

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

— Peter Mullan

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

— Mayer Hawthorne

“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

— Henry David Thoreau

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

— Peter L. Berger

“In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)”

— Anonymous

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

— Paul Tillich

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

— Thom Mayne

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

— Isaac Asimov

“The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

— Michael Hawley

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

— Edwin O. Reischauer

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

— Ernest Rutherford

“It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science is only a tool. The harm or good depends on how men use it.

— Vikrant Parsai