Science Quotes · Page 282

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

— Herbert Simon

“Perhaps you'll gave to kiss him again, if you're not sure. Gather more evidence. In the name of science.”

— Rhiannon Thomas

“It doesn't take rocket science to realize your define purpose”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

— Allen Covert

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.”

— Jules Verne

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

— David Baltimore

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

— Jose Mourinho

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are…

— Chris Mooney

When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.

— Alex Wagner

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as…

— Carl Jung

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing…

— Richard P. Feynman

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite…

— Thomas Sowell

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It…

— George Wald

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a…

— Saul Bellow

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with…

— James Lovelock

“If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its…

— Naomi Oreskes

We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find…

— Allan Savory

“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech…

— Carl Sagan

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended…

— Bruce Alberts

“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do…

— Roland Barthes

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

— Deepak Chopra

“science applied to social problems and backed by the whole force of the state,”

— C.S. Lewis

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

— Sebastian Arcelus

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

— Prentice Mulford

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

— Alfred Nobel

“But, could he truly call himself a scientist if he were to pass up such a unique opportunity?”

— Christa Faust

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

“There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.”

— Karen Armstrong

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

— Anonymous

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

— Anonymous

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

— Jaggi Vasudev

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

— David Koepp

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

— James Wan

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

— Rob Lowe

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson