Science Quotes · Page 268

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

— Auguste Comte

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

— Benjamin Carson

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

— Richard P. Feynman

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

— Sarah Palin

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

— Isaac Bonewits

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

— Jay Shetty

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

— Frank Herbert

“Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.”

— Pearl Zhu

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and…

— Ada Lovelace

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences…

— Jurgen Habermas

I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an…

— Kip Thorne

“His sexological research, combined with personal concern for his patients, would alone have been a considerable achievement. But he was one of…

— Charlotte Wolff, M.D

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to…

— Thomas Hardy

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or…

— Eugene Ionesco

“Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something…

— Gary Russell

When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but…

— Hilary Kornblith

The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of…

— Philip J. Klass

“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in…

— G.K. Chesterton

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,…

— E. O. Wilson

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should…

— John Polkinghorne

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

— Gerald Holton

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

— Marcel Proust

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

— Ori Hofmekler

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

— Koji Nakanishi

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

— Howard Bloom

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

— Herbert Spencer

“There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently. ”

— Thomas Hardy

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

— H. P. Blavatsky

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

— Charles Babbage

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

— Philemon

“Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.”

— Brandon Sanderson

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

— Denis Diderot

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

— Frederick Lenz

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

— Martin Fleischmann

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

— Sebastian Thrun