Science Quotes · Page 271

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

— Dan Brown

“Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.”

— Bernard Heuvelmans

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

— Gretchen Rubin

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

— Sara Paretsky

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

— A. S. Byatt

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

— Charles Babbage

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

— Dennis Weaver

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to…

— Kabir Sehgal

“And if the world does not in all respects correspond to our wishes, is this the fault of science, or of those…

— Carl Sagan

We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in…

— Matt Groening

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

— E. O. Wilson

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my…

— Lisa Su

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

— George Carlin

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,…

— Yvor Winters

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied…

— John Locke

I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with…

— Chloe Benjamin

“[Strategy] is more than a science: it is the application of knowledge to practical life, the development of thought capable of modifying…

— Robert Greene

There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of…

— Jo Beverley

Science is science. Science is what is. After discovery, tests, trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits…

— Rush Limbaugh

“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows…

— Alan F. Chalmers

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of…

— Michael Behe

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

— Robert J. Sawyer

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

— Isaac Asimov

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity...

— Victor Hugo

“we founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms.”

— Jennifer A. Doudna

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

— Freeman Dyson

“When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.”

— Luis Marques

“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

— Steve Ballmer

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

— Richard Dawkins

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

— Ernest Rutherford

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

— Edwin O. Reischauer

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

— John de Lancie

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

— Tom Robbins

Science is only a tool. The harm or good depends on how men use it.

— Vikrant Parsai