Science Quotes · Page 250

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

— C.P. Snow

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

— Francois Hollande

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

— J. Michael Straczynski

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

— Joss Whedon

“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”

— Francis Bacon

“Then the 92nd little pig built a house out of depleted uranium and the wolf was like, "dude.”

— Randall Munroe

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

— Gustave Flaubert

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and dont worry.

— Anonymous

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our…

— Catherine Fahringer

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see…

— Peter Singer

“...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too…

— Valentino Braitenberg

“That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average…

— Bradley Sands

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have…

— Dave Barry

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

— Erwin Chargaff

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if…

— Bill Gates

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken…

— David Starr Jordan

How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over…

— Joseph L. Bast

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

“Notwithstanding the very prevalent impression, indeed we might say the practically universal persuasion, that there was nothing worth while talking about in…

— James Joseph Walsh

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called…

— Stephen Hawking

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,…

— Lois Lowry

“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all…

— Gustave Le Bon

Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to…

— Freeman Dyson

“I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming…

— Allegra Goodman

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

“Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.”

— Dahlia K. Remler

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

— Anonymous

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

— Richard P. Feynman

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

When scientists do discover the center of the universe dont be disappointed that its not you

— Ana Chable

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

— Jamie Hyneman

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

— Steven Levy

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

— Thomas Carlyle

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

— Anonymous

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.

— Hendrik Poinar

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

— Eugene Wigner

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

— Steven Pinker

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

— Giorgio Baglivi

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

— Reginald Fessenden