Science Quotes · Page 264

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

— Alan Taylor

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

— Theodore Hesburgh

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

— Marco Tempest

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

— Jacob Bronowski

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”

— John Green

“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.”

— Charles Hermite

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

— Alan Perlis

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too…

— Dana Gould

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

— Mark Walport

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play…

— E. O. Wilson

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and…

— John Money

Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages…

— Sabelo Lan Mashabela

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to…

— Herman Bavinck

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because…

— Michael Flanders

“When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Intelligent Design is fraught with even more difficulties, as it suggests God as one who dips His hand in every now and…

— Aaron R. Yilmaz

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship…

— Ann Brashares

It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the…

— Thomas A. Edison

“The mad scientist is going to chase you around with a hypodermic needle, Gregori," she teased. Gregori lifted an eyebrow, his face…

— Christine Feehan

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference…

— Freeman Dyson

In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,…

— Bertrand Russell

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

— Anonymous

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

— Anonymous

“The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.”

— A.E. Samaan

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.”

— Orson Scott Card

Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

— Lillian Russell

“Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

— Gerard Debreu

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

— Robert Watson-Watt

“Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .”

— Jojo Moyes

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

— Percival Lowell

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

— Albert Einstein

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

— Jacob Bronowski

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

— Alfred North Whitehead