Science Quotes · Page 269

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

— Thom Mayne

“In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)”

— Anonymous

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

— Paul Tillich

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

— Henry David Thoreau

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

— Peter L. Berger

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

— Isaac Asimov

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

— Peter Mullan

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several…

— Hope Jahren

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part…

— Bill Bryson

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…

— Charles Lyell

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or…

— Marsden Wagner

What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual…

— Noam Chomsky

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe…

— Ogden Nash

I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human…

— Lauren Jauregui

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside.…

— Robert Shapiro

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite…

— Max Weber

“The upsides of the high-reactive temperament have been documented in exciting research that scientists are only now beginning to pull together. One…

— Susan Cain

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand…

— Alfred Noyes

It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…

— Isaac Newton

But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive…

— Thomas Young

“I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still…

— Ernest Becker

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College…

— John Taylor Gatto

I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow.

— Theresa Tam

“Buck’s girlfriend went by the porny name of Miracle though she had a master’s in computer science from Florida State.”

— Carl Hiaasen

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

— John Noble

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

— Rick Harrison

“William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn’t been explained yet.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

— Max Delbruck

“reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.”

— Peter Boghossian

“Nobody knows how to do it except the Egyptians. Even modern science.”

— J.D. Salinger

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

— Al Gore

... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...

— Edgar Allan Poe

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

— Charles Darwin

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

— John Tuzo Wilson

“Be an influencer to avoid being influenced that will measure your strength.”

— Anonymous

“We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.”

— Timothy Ferris

“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.”

— Aldous Huxley