Science Quotes · Page 260

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

— Natalie Angier

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Carl Sagan

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

— Ray Bradbury

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

— Jon Stewart

“Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.”

— Heinz R. Pagels

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

— James Dyson

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they…

— Malcolm Forbes

I'm an astrobiologist, and I come from a planetary science background, so in a very broad sense, I study the evolution of…

— David Grinspoon

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

— Peter Lynch

“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.”

— Dan Riskin

“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Everyone should have a life coach. We learn history, maths, and science at school, but we don't have the tools to understand…

— Ashley Roberts

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres,…

— Tu Youyou

Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the…

— Jon Stewart

Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important…

— Carl Sagan

Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically…

— Frederick Lenz

“If people say They don't Believe there's a God or his son Jesus then answer me this! who's name do they call…

— Lawrence A Bergeron

A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone…

— J. C. R. Licklider

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an…

— Matt Groening

“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).”

— Bill Bryson

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn…

— Jacques Barzun

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

— Robert Kuttner

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

— Susan Sontag

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

— Eoin Colfer

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

— John Phillips

It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

— Will Cuppy

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

— Stephen J. Dubner

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

— Jason Patric

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?” “Science,” Peabody said. “You can’t live without it.”

— J.D. Robb

“It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.”

— Bradley Steffens

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

— Ray Bradbury

“The only way you are going to die and wake up someplace else is with science, not wishful thinking.”

— Victor YatesCrayne