Science Quotes · Page 252

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

— Lyall Watson

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

— Francis Crick

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

— Anonymous

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

— Thomas Aquinas

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

— Jacob Bronowski

In science, everything happens for a reason ... I'm looking forward why i've fallen for you ..

— Jaypee

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

— Tobias Smollett

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Spirituality is a path to bring one closer to the ‘Science’ (vignan). Spirituality is relative and ‘Science’ is real. Spirituality is ‘Knowledge’…

— Dada Bhagwan

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception…

— Bertrand Russell

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or…

— Isaac Newton

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe…

— Tom Holt

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played…

— Charles Francis Richter

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young…

— Sydney Brenner

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing…

— Bill Bryson

“The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead…

— J.I. Packer

“His laws changed all of physics and astronomy. His laws made it possible to calculate the mass of the sun and planets.…

— Walter Lewin

Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as…

— Ibrahim Hooper

“The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each…

— Salvador de Madariaga

To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what…

— Joseph Needham

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.…

— Dan Simmons

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment…

— Ludwig von Mises

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

— Rick Perry

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

— Karl Popper

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

— Jacob Bronowski

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

— Burton Richter

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

— Thomas Nashe

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

— Criss Jami

Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science.

— Melinda M Marshall

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

— Serge Lang

“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.”

— Steven Magee

“Yet the connection between science and empire went much deeper.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

— Thomas Kuhn

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

— Irving R. Levine

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

— Alfred Romer

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

— Marshall McLuhan

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

— Freeman Dyson