Science Quotes · Page 261

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

— George W. Bush

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

— Herbert Hoover

Sci-Hub arose as a tool to be used in a Russian-speaking online research community.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

— G. H. Hardy

“Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

— Edward Victor Appleton

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing…

— Thomas Jefferson

But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of…

— Joseph Needham

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But…

— Stephen Hawking

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical…

— Nicolaas Bloembergen

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by…

— Isaac Newton

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at…

— Lewis Thomas

Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than…

— Rock Cowles

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

— Iain Banks

In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions…

— Sabaa Tahir

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were…

— Richard P. Feynman

First, In showing in how to avoid attempting impossibilities. Second, In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself…

— John Herschel

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are…

— Lincoln Steffens

The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but…

— Henry Miller

Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and…

— Max Planck

“The best way to avoid abuses is for the populace in general to be scientifically literate, to understand the implications of such…

— Carl Sagan

“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman…

— Virchand Gandhi

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge…

— George Coyne

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

— Sandra Faber

“Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become. ☥”

— Luis Marques

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The meaning of life can best be simplified as gratifying a personalized set of instincts.”

— Eric Hirzel

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

— Kevin Sabet

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

— Gabriel Marcel

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

— Richard Owen

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

— Konrad Lorenz

“The human curiosity is as if an ant which seeks knowledge and walks over the books of science.”

— Toba Beta

My father is a geologist and he really thinks that scientists are going to save the world, so he wanted me to…

— Lucy Worsley

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

— Guglielmo Marconi

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

— Kurt Gödel

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

— Stephen Hawking

Deep neural networks are responsible for some of the greatest advances in modern computer science.

— Jeff Dean

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

— Arthur Conan Doyle