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Science Quotes by James Bryant Conant
- Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts…
- In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have…
- Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.
- There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to…
- The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,…
- I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and…
- ... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
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