Science Quotes · Page 229

“There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently. ”

— Thomas Hardy

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

— Frederick Lenz

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

— Denis Diderot

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

— Koji Nakanishi

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

— Ori Hofmekler

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

— Marcel Proust

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

— Herbert Spencer

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science…

— Melinda Gates

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the…

— Frederick Soddy

“A brick could be used to measure water levels through what scientists call hydrostatics. If you throw a brick into the ocean,…

— Jarod Kintz

“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”

— Alberto Caeiro

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole…

— Fred Alan Wolf

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became…

— Douglas Trumbull

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic…

— Claude Bernard

Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is…

— Samuel Homola

“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number…

— Hermann Bondi

“I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts. The first is that our perceptions being every thing for…

— Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy

“The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and…

— Zoltan Istvan

In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life,…

— D. H. Lawrence

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

— Howard Bloom

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

— Jay Shetty

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

— Isaac Bonewits

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

— Sarah Palin

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

— Benjamin Carson

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

— Richard P. Feynman

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

— Gerald Holton

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

— Frank Herbert

“It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.

— Jodie Evans

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

— Auguste Comte

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons