Science Quotes · Page 278

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

— J. G. Ballard

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to…

— George Iles

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

— Lois Capps

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

— Richard M. Weaver

“Never rely on your little knowledge and understanding. There are always some things that you don't know.”

— Maliheh Sadat Razavi

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

— Robert J. Sawyer

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the…

— Norbert Wiener

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a…

— Jean Rostand

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that…

— Carl Sagan

We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all…

— Michael Shermer

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

— Benjamin Spock

As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the…

— John Desmond Bernal

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every…

— Charles F. Haanel

Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists…

— Max Perutz

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of…

— Neil Cross

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like…

— D. H. Lawrence

The elite government does have devices that can create earthquakes anywhere in the world that they want. I was just in Russia…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

“In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not…

— Alan Sokal

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of…

— Jacques Maritain

The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…

— Herbert Spencer

It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.

— Richard A. Falk

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

— Bernard Baily

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

— Nancy Pearcey

I always said I wanted to be scientist, but I didn't really have the staying power.

— Nina Conti

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

— Joan Clarke

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

— Ed Markey

Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.

— Phil Keoghan

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

— Albert Einstein

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

— George Lakoff

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

— Helen Sharman

“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of…

— Alasdair Gray

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

Sciences are being unified by the search for life in the universe.

— John M. Grunsfeld

We can't say, 'Science, science, science,' and then say, 'Except in unrealistic climate talking points.'

— John Fetterman

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

— Robert Winston

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

— Fritz Leiber