Science Quotes · Page 237

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

— Thomas Huxley

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

— Richard Dawkins

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

— Rudy Rucker

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

— Anonymous

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

— Frederick Lenz

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

— Jim Starlin

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

— Ronald Reagan

“Somewhere along the line I also recognized that spiritual growth is “inner” creativity, as contrasted to creativity in the arts and the…

— Amit Goswami

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

— Leo Tolstoy

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

— Samuel Butler

“We scientists in particular must foster internationalism,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this…

— Walter Isaacson

“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still…

— Michael Grimm

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or…

— John Dewey

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of…

— Yehuda Amichai

Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My…

— Carrie Nugent

Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto…

— Werner Heisenberg

'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the…

— Nicolas Cage

It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that…

— Bill Bryson

Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is…

— Claude Bernard

So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science…

— Patrick Stewart

“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil…

— Vernor Vinge

Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater…

— Prince Charles

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

— Maria Semple

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

— Lucy Hawking

Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

— Claudia Christian

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

— Charles Fort

“I'm a chemist. Not a woman chemist. A chemist. A damn good one!”

— Bonnie Garmus

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

— Immanuel Kant

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

— Joyce Carol Oates

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

— David Penhaligon

“If you have a reasonable amount of stupidity, you will follow Nations of stupids!!”

— Hesham Nebr

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

— Seymour Cray

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

— Carroll Quigley

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

— Anonymous

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

— Carmine Giovinazzo

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

— Tom Stoppard