Science Quotes · Page 280

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

— Freeman Dyson

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

— George Howe Colt

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

— Barry Barish

“For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John G. Kemeny

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

— Khalil Gibran

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

— William James

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and is as necessary to life as the act of breathing.

— Lewis Howard Latimer

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it…

— Michael Faraday

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which…

— Len Evans

The basic thing you teach your children is to respect other people. It is not rocket science; it's as simple as brushing…

— Shefali Shah

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots…

— David Gerrold

I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what…

— Marcia Gay Harden

Tivo. Get Tivo. Tivo is great. I love my Tivo. Effortless timeshifting and commercial zipping. I love my Tivo. Tivo is great.…

— Anonymous

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does…

— Mark Twain

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of…

— Talcott Parsons

We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And…

— George W. Bush

Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature…

— James Cameron

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one…

— Leo Tolstoy

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“And when you lay in bed with your wife, are you mentally there or with the women on TV? Or the women…

— Amby C. Ezem

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly…

— Ellen Key

“Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an…

— Robin Cook

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

— Walter Lang

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

— Donny Deutsch

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

— John B. S. Haldane

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing…

— Robert Rankin

“The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger. ☥”

— Luis Marques

“I didn’t realize there were so many Brainiacs,” Ivy whispers.”

— S.G. Blaise

“The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.”

— W. Cleon Skousen

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary”

— Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

— Robert J. Marks II

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

— Randy Schekman

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

— Kip Thorne

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

— Erwin Chargaff

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

— Adam Smith

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

— A.C. Grayling

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

— Madeleine L'Engle