Science Quotes · Page 243

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

“Astronomers research outer space and I research inner space.”

— Steven Magee

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

— Isaac Asimov

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

— Richard P. Feynman

Find out if youre still human, observe yourself from another planet

— Anonymous

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

— Thomas Jefferson

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

— Anton Zeilinger

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark”

— Stephen Hawking

there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of…

— Jane Goodall

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how…

— Daniel Quinn

“I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they…

— William Shakespeare

“Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.”

— James Gleick

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize…

— Ava Helen Pauling

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with…

— Nils-Axel Morner

“Pain and pleasure will keep coming; that is all scientific circumstantial evidence. Pain and pleasure are effective (effects of past causes). In…

— Dada Bhagwan

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies…

— Alan Guth

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are…

— Richard Lewontin

In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is…

— DH Lawrence

“Introduction When it comes to skincare, one of the most important factors we often overlook is maintaining the hydration of our skin.…

— Tatily London

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for…

— Jacob Bronowski

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently…

— Melinda Gates

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that…

— David Mermin

“In deriving a body from the water type I intend to express that to this body, considered as an oxide, there corresponds…

— Charles Gerhardt

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

— Samuel Butler

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

— Thomas Szasz

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

— Claude C. Hopkins

“E. A. Burtt argued that the foundations of science were often theological.”

— Gary B. Ferngren

“Scientists discover the world that exists; engineers create the world that never was.”

— Theodore Von Karman

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

— Jean-Marie Lehn

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

— Roger Deakins

“If everything were explained by science and logic, what a dull world it would be.”

— Tess Oliver

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

— Richard Dawkins

Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.

— Steven Levy

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

— Democritus

“We humans only exist in this world, because of our intelligence.”

— Detlev H. Chmelarz

“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.”

— Anonymous

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

— John Opie

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

— Barry Barish