Science Quotes · Page 253

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

— Barack Obama

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

— Sean Carroll

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

— Karl Popper

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

— Ambrose Bierce

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

— Anonymous

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

— Jacob Bronowski

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men…

— Manisha Sinha

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What…

— Max Lerner

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

— Charles Kettering

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a…

— Werner Heisenberg

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense…

— Matt Haig

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough…

— Perry Miller

When dealing with data, scientists have often struggled to account for the risks and harms using it might inflict. One primary concern…

— Kate Crawford

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning…

— Horace-Benedict de Saussure

“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I…

— Cal Newport

It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the…

— David Lasser

“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last…

— Ernst Haeckel

“I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why…

— Carl Sagan

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

— Ivan Reitman

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

— Max Planck

“An informed world is not only for today, but a legacy to shape a better world and future for tomorrow.”

— Alastair Agutter

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

— Francis Parker Yockey

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

— Saint Augustine

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

— Noam Chomsky

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

— Oliver Sacks

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

— Mason Cooley

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

— Laeta Kalogridis

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

— Tommy Mottola

“Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

— Douglas Adams

It was quite difficult to play the role of a scientist in 'Hasee To Phasee.'

— Parineeti Chopra

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

— Erasmus Darwin

“For every theory there has to be counterevidence--otherwise science wouldn't progress.”

— Haruki Murakami

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

— Anonymous

“...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.”

— Socrates