Scientific Quotes · Page 3

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

— Edward Abbey

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

— Aristotle

“I'm about as scientific as a saltine”

— Charlaine Harris

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

— Matthew McConaughey

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

— Jill Lepore

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

— Armand Trousseau

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

— David Eagleman

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

— Damien Hirst

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

— James Tobin

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

— Dean Ornish

“I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!”

— Steven Magee

“My dream was to be a scientist, but it turns out to be poetic scientific awakener.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their…

— John Charles Polanyi

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I…

— Sarah Parcak

“That's the whole point to the Scientific Method. It can never actually verify truth, but it can show what is not true.”

— Jim Haines

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial…

— Timothy Noah

“In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many…

— Dada Bhagwan

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own…

— Asa Gray

I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more…

— Alex Clare

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

— Vannevar Bush

“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there…

— Ernest Rutherford

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The…

— Lynn Margulis

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.…

— Michael Specter

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act…

— Alison Gopnik

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also…

— Ben Goldacre

“The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

— Aaron Swartz

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

— Anita Roddick

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

— Joseph Murray

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

— Philippe Perrin

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

— Russell Baker

Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.

— Heather Mac Donald

When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

— Lisa Randall

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

— Steven Novella

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

— Daisy Bates