Science Quotes · Page 277

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

— James Gleick

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

— H. L. Mencken

“..the truth is, we made each other, like we learned about in science class. Symbiosis.”

— Abigail Haas

I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.

— Alexander III of Russia

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the…

— Harold Pinter

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

— William Gibson

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

— David Twohy

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

— Anonymous

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which…

— Victor J. Stenger

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

— James Altucher

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

— Gerard De Nerval

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully…

— Abraham Maslow

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper…

— Stephen Hawking

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a…

— Alan Huffman

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of…

— Max Gluckman

What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that…

— David Ruelle

I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly…

— Rhonda Byrne

Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence,…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose…

— Rajiv Menon

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade…

— Paul Lockhart

Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning…

— John Medina

“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does…

— Richard Dawkins

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in…

— David Hume

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

— Alastair Reynolds

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

— James D. Watson

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

— Albert Einstein

“Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.”

— Ben Goldacre

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

— Sylvia Earle

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

— Carl Linnaeus

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves.”

— Carl Zimmer

“Unchecked, science and monotheism both mean to vanquish nature.”

— Christopher Potter

“the queen of science is mathematics and the queen of mathematics is arithmetic”

— Anonymous

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

— Sextus Empiricus

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

— Michael Sheen

Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact.

— Mark Walport

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

— C.P. Snow