Science Quotes · Page 272

“It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

— Michael Hawley

“The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

— Taslima Nasrin

I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.

— Roger Helmer

“Science doesn’t listen. Science has mice growing out of its ears. Wait, I mean human ears growing out of its mice.”

— Jarod Kintz

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

— C.P. Snow

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

— Charles Lyell

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering…

— Rebecca Goldstein

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is..…

— Dick Cheney

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…

— Herbert Hoover

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those…

— Herbert Read

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all…

— Charles Kingsley

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the…

— Charles Babbage

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

— Jared Diamond

“While he attends to his rats, Persinger gives me the lowdown on the haunt theory. Why would a certain type of electromagnetic…

— Mary Roach

“Sometimes you do have to take someone else’s word for it. And sometimes you will want to defer to an authority with…

— Denise Minger

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,…

— Carl Sagan

The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to…

— Norman Cousins

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ring ring ring !!! Hello Karma speaking Hi Karma I'm a first time caller and all I would like to say is…

— Kevin McCarty

“One competent scientist is worth more than a thousand evangelists.”

— Al Stefanelli

“Sorry for the delay," Vogel said. "I was required to make a bomb.”

— Andy Weir

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

— Orson Scott Card

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

— David Allen

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

— Michael Dorn

Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and…

— Margaret Atwood

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

“...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.”

— Kevin Fong

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

— Lawrence Durrell

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

— Tom Noddy

Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence...

— Bernard Haisch