Science Quotes · Page 251

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

— Frederick Seitz

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

— Edward Tufte

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

— Frank Tipler

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

— John Henry Newman

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

— Ray Kurzweil

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

— Francis Bacon

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

— Carl Woese

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

— Neil LaBute

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only…

— Charles Kingsley

“If I become blind and the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me…

— John Green

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…

— Lewis Thomas

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,…

— James Lovelock

“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,…

— Abhijit Naskar

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous…

— Eliza Dushku

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have…

— Jane Goodall

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…

— John Desmond Bernal

“The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as…

— Bee Wilson

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception…

— Nancy Gibbs

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and…

— Gale Anne Hurd

“a recent event hosted by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists got together with film makers…

— Anonymous

The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism,…

— Satish Kumar

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

“A few more years passed before I understood the distance between that satellite and the stars. Back then I was reading a…

— Liu Cixin

“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition…

— Marco del Giudice

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

— Anonymous

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

— Francis Collins

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

— Dan Simmons

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

— Anatoly Chubais

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

— Joshua Lederberg

I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.

— Steven Wright

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

— Henry Fielding

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

— Aristotle

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

— Richard Hamming

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

— Annie Besant

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

— Bill Gaede

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

— Alexander Pope

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

— Mark Walport

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

— Leonard Susskind

“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.”

— Bryan Sykes