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8871 Science quotes by 3328 unique authors

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe… — John Burroughs
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces,… — Camille Paglia
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory… — Rick Perry
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. — Henri Poincare
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. — Jack Handey
Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded. — Herman Cain
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every… — Winston Churchill
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt. — Huston Smith
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on… — William Osler
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks,… — Bill Gates
Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek… — Nevill Francis Mott
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they… — Carl Sagan
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. — John Charles Polanyi
Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. — Rajneesh
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive… — David Chalmers
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule… — Charles Babbage
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do… — Joshua Reynolds

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