Science Quotes · Page 281

“There is nothing so intoxicating to the scientific mind as the weird and unfamiliar. The”

— G.S. Denning

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

— Allen Wheelis

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps

“in 2010, a University of Alabama scientist gunned down six of her colleagues. Here’s what made Amy Bishop snap.”

— John Heilemann

“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.”

— Charles Darwin

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

— Mike May

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

— Kedar Joshi

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

— Roger Bacon

Genetic scientists say that one day it will be possible to grow new body parts, like new breasts and new hands. It's…

— Jay Leno

In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by…

— Charles Fleischer

“I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them…

— Peyton J Glenn

From life sciences to manufacturing, San Diego's economy depends on federal policies that encourage the cross-border exchange of goods and ideas.

— Kevin Faulconer

“Gibarian belonged to what may well have been the last generation of researchers who had the courage to refer back to the…

— Stanisław Lem

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting…

— Samuel R. Delany

Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs…

— Bill Nye

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the…

— Vannevar Bush

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not…

— Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

“And just what is the nature of things?” “It’s beyond us. Not to be understood. The sun blows a fuse here and…

— Scott Nicholson

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief…

— Wernher von Braun

For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable,…

— Robert Briffault

“It is in our collective behavior that we are the most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves until…

— Lewis Thomas

“That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter,…

— Primo Levi

“The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see…

— Steve Brusatte

“There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.”

— David Crystal

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

— Malala Yousafzai

“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes.

— Frank Schaeffer

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

— Carl Sagan

“In the search for truth, what you believe matters less than how you believe.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

“if by chance this were the last of its race, would it not be better to spare it—in the interest of science?”

— Jules Verne

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

— John Ortberg

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

— Ben Miller

Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

— Emily Blunt

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

— Edward Gibbon

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

— Frank Luntz

Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.

— Richard Hamming

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”

— James Cambias