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Science Quotes by Bill Bryson
- Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do…
- Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that…
- Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
- [The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such…
- By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast…
- You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
- In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at…
- It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a…
- Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
- The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose
- I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally…
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov