Science Quotes

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. — Miguel de Unamuno
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many… — Bill Gates
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is… — Karl Popper
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… — Carl Sagan
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Thomas Browne
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music. — Avery Brundage
The negative cautions of science are never popular. — Margaret Mead
The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection. — Mike Johanns
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. — Linus Pauling
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. — Thomas Carlyle
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their… — Ambrose Bierce
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta,… — Rajneesh
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts… — Rajneesh
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists with wonder. If… — Rajneesh
Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die… — Rajneesh
All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best,… — Saint Francis de Sales
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before… — Lynn Margulis
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and… — Barack Obama

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