Science Quotes · Page 258

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

— Leroy Hood

“Healing is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”

— W.H. Auden

I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.

— Ann Makosinski

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

— Dave Barry

I'm very L.A. in that sense, where I'm very into star science and horoscopes and all that jazz.

— Alana Haim

“researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.”

— Jared Taylor

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

— Charles Darwin

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

— George Gaylord Simpson

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our…

— J. William Fulbright

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address…

— Seth Berkley

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

“Rash decisions will more often than not, result in the demise of chances you could have had with a situation for a…

— Abhilash 'Nox' Baruah

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then…

— Scott Thompson

“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told…

— Irène Joliot-Curie

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

— Ryan Gosling

“Data science takes a natural and intuitive human process—spotting patterns and making sense of them—and injects it with steroids”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I…

— Robert Redford

Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was…

— Margaret Wertheim

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…

— Charles Lyell

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people…

— Max Delbruck

“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,…

— Anonymous

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments,…

— Henry Jacob Bigelow

“The Black Book of Economic Development - The Clandestine Art and Practical Science of Building Local Economies” is a must-read for everyone…

— Don Holbrook

Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did…

— Natalie Angier

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

— William Irwin Thompson

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

— Kenneth Stafford Norris

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

— Christiaan Barnard

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

— Geoffrey Chew

“It is well known in cognitive science that if you are pessimistic, you sound ‘smarter,”

— Anonymous

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

— Peter Watts

“The Sama Veda of India contains the world’s earliest writings on musical science. The”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

— Hermann Bondi

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

— Jonas Salk

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

— Phil Plait

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

— Louis de Broglie

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

— Lee Strobel

Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.

— Anonymous

“Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.”

— Luis Marques

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

— Kedar Joshi