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Carl SaganScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. 101
Karl PopperScience may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.101
Willard Van Orman QuineLanguage is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.101
Edmund HusserlWe would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.101
Robert A. HeinleinEverything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. 101
Ada LovelaceThe science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.101
Bjarke IngelsIn the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.101
Brian GreeneScience is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.101
Daniel DennettSome of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.101
David MametThe poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.101
Dave RamseyThe thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.101
Edwin Powell HubbleEquipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.101
Eric SchmidtThe rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.101
Fabrice GrindaLearn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.101
Greg GraffinScience is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.101
Hideo KojimaGenetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.101
Huston SmithScience is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.101
Iain BanksScience fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.101
Imre LakatosIf even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.101
Irving BabbittThe humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.101
Ivan ReitmanI think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.101
Jules VerneScience, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.101
Karl PearsonStatistics is the grammar of science.101
Ken HamThere's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.101
Leland StanfordFrom my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.101
Lewis ThomasThe cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.101
Louis PasteurScience knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.101
Natalie JeremijenkoThe art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.101
Natasha TretheweyI am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.101
Nawal El SaadawiTo be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.101
Otto WallachAs soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.101
Owen ChamberlainThe development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.101
Patricia CornwellI didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.101
Sally RideScience is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.101
Sebastian ThrunThe Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?101
Stephen LeacockAdvertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.101
Vera RubinScience progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.101
Vilayanur S. RamachandranScience is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.101
Walter ReischDon't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.101
Wernher von BraunResearch is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 101
Wilhelm WundtHence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.101
AviEverybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.101
Barbara TuchmanBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.101
Bernard MarcusI'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.101
Bruce FeirsteinThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. 101
Claude BernardArt is I; science is we.101
Edward TellerThe science of today is the technology of tomorrow. 101
Gregory MeeksIf I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.101
Irving LangmuirScience, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.101
Joan JettI'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.101
Kenneth R. MillerI am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.101
Kevin J. AndersonWe sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.101
Konrad LorenzIt is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.101
Nancy Banks SmithAnthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.101
Nassau William SeniorWe propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.101
Paolo BacigalupiWhen we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.101
Rainbow RowellI like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?101
Theodore SturgeonI wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.101
Afrika BambaataaI'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.101
Gary KempWe never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.101
Gregory BatesonScience, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.101
Guglielmo MarconiThanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.101
Heinrich RohrerScience means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.101
Hugh HoweyOne of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.101
John PolkinghorneScience cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.101
Kenneth G. WilsonThe Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.101
Paul BergNovel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.101
Portia Simpson-MillerJamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.101
Richard DoolingThe most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.101
Thomas BergerThe art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.101
Warren WeaverScience is not gadgetry.101
Will HarveyWhat is research but a blind date with knowledge?101
Alan PerlisComputer Science is embarrassed by the computer.101
Alice Morse EarleIn the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.101
Bob HarperI found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.101
Charles VestLooking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.101
Clay ShirkyI would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.101
Emun ElliottI actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.101
Gilbert Newton LewisIt must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.101
Greg EganPop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.101
Heinz R. PagelsScience cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.101
Henry TaubeAnd as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.101
Hugo GernsbackLet it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.101
John BroughHe gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.101
Keahu KahuanuiBecause some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.101
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar IIIt is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.101
Morgan FairchildWhen the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.101
Philip GreenspunWe're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.101
Peter CullenI'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.101
Rian JohnsonI do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.101
Rod SerlingThere is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.101
Rupert SheldrakeScience at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.101
Aaron CiechanoverBiochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.101
Alastair ReynoldsI think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.101
Andrea M. GhezThe question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.101
Blake EdwardsNothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.101
Brian CheskyWhen you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.101
Charles H. TownesThe development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.101
Denis KearneyThey have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.101
Gustave MeyrinkRead the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.101
Jacob BronowskiNo science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.101
James BalogClimate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.101
James C. MaxwellIn a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.101
Martin H. FischerHalf of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.101
Stanley B. PrusinerNeuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.101
Tansy Rayner RobertsOne of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.101
Bruno LatourMy interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.101
Corneille EwangoAround 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my studies. I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even. So, I did it. And for three to four years, I went to university. For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor. I didn't succeed.101
Erwin ChargaffScience is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'101
Esther HicksIf you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'101
John B. S. HaldaneThere can be no truce between science and religion.101
Mark RussellThe scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.101
Robert D. HareScience cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.101
Sonya HartnettIf I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.101
Thomas GoldI wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.101
David J. AndersonThere are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.101
Magdi YacoubLeaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.101
Marco TempestI combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.101
Masi OkaI've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.101
Spencer WellsWhat if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.101
Jean M. AuelScience Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.101
Robert BarclayHe that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?101
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharIndeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.101
Marc BlochHistory is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.101
Robert ReedBefore I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.101
Rudolf CarnapIn science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.101
Arthur M. SchlesingerScience and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.101
Johannes P. MullerPhysiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.101
James GunnIn hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.101
James MurdochThrough basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.101
James Van AllenWe had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.101
John AbbottWar is the science of destruction.101
John F. TierneyOn education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.101
John von NeumannAnyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.101
John LangdonLanguage, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.101
Nikola TeslaModern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.102
Woodrow WilsonThe method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.102
Edmund HusserlTo begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.102
Ada LovelaceImagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.102
Alan TuringScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.102
Aleister CrowleyScience is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.102
Dan BrownThe more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'102
David PerlmutterThe science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person's chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.102
Donald KnuthScience is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.102
Edwin LandScience is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.102
Ethan AllenIn those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.102
Frederick SangerScientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.102
Georges SeuratSome say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.102
Harvey CushingIn these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.102
Julia Roberts'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.102
Linus PaulingFacts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.102
Lisa RandallPeople who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.102
Marissa MayerWhen people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.102
Max PlanckScience cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.102
N. R. Narayana MurthyScience is about unravelling nature.102
Neil MacGregorGoogle the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.102
Paul JohnsonThe image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.102
Peter YorkIn the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.102
Roy H. WilliamsEinstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.102
Sebastian ThrunIf we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.102
Vilayanur S. RamachandranMy views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.102
Wernher von BraunIt will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.102
William GibsonDreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.102
Zahi HawassIt's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.102
Anthony FauciYou can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.102
Bruce LiptonThe planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.102
Charles JencksScience is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.102
Edward TellerA fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.102
Frederik PohlPeople ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.102
Harry KnowlesFor the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.102
Irving LangmuirTo my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.102
Jared DiamondBiology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.102
Kirstie AlleyWhen push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.102
Lance SecretanScience sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.102
Mae JemisonScience provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.102
Nathan DealScientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. 102
Nick DentonMy background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.102
Norman SpinradAs a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.102
Nursultan NazarbayevIn the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.102
Patrick Soon-ShiongI have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.102
Paul Di FilippoOnly a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.102
Peter AgreWritten in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.102
Randy NewmanLearn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.102
Vannevar BushScience has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.102
Walter GilbertWhy do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.102
David ChalmersMy interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.102
Elizabeth ThorntonThere are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.102
Emily DeschanelI really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.102
Felix KleinThe developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.102
Francis William AstonThe cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.102
Gail CarrigerI like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.102
Henry Norris RussellConflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.102
Henry W. KendallMany people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.102
Honor HargerWe've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.102
John GlennThe most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.102
Lyman BeecherNo great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.102
Norman O. BrownIn its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.102
Philippe FalardeauI studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.102
Phillip E. JohnsonNo doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.102
Talulah RileyI got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.102
Burton RichterModern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.102
E. Y. HarburgLeave the atom alone.102
Erez Lieberman AidenMuch of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.102
Evan EsarDefinition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.102
Gregory PetskoFor thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew that plants contained substances that could affect people. Coffee will keep you awake. Tobacco contains something that will calm your nerves. Foxglove contains an extract that'll affect your heart.102
Josef AlbersIt is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.102
Ken WilberThe Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.102
Margaret GellerThere are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.102
Mike JohannsWe asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.102
Polykarp KuschIf, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.102
Trofim LysenkoAnd the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.102
Alan LightmanFor me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.102
Aravind AdigaIn my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.102
Charles H. TownesThere is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.102
Christiane Nusslein-VolhardIn mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.102
Dale T. MortensenI was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.102
Emily PostNothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.102
John BardeenFurther, science is a collaborative effort.102
John ColemanGlobal Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.102
Martin FeldsteinA second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.102
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkMy people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.102
Paul NitzeWe slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.102
Sherrilyn KenyonMy mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch 'Outer Limits,' 'Night Gallery,' 'Twilight Zone,' and 'Star Trek.' We lived to watch those reruns.102
Alexis DenisofI think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.102
Bruno BettelheimRaising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.102
C. V. RamanIn the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.102
Cynthia BreazealIn a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.102
J. C. ChandorI had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.102
Jamie ZawinskiSoftware Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.102
Jeffery DeaverCertainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.102
John L. PhillipsWe're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.102
Joshua LederbergI did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.102
Matthew ModineIf you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.102
Rolf-Dieter HeuerIf there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.102
Shannon LucidWhen I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.102
Bill DanaHe is so old that his blood type was discontinued.102
Dave ParnasWhenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'102
Robin G. CollingwoodA man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.102
Mark PocanWe know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.102
Jerry MoranThis is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.102
John Desmond BernalThe recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.102
Manly HallThe end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.102
Michael LevittIt's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very large field, and it's always in some ways been the poor sister, or the ugly sister, to experimental biology.102
James SanbornI chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.102
Johannes Vilhelm JensenWhenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.102
Jiang ZeminThe theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.102
John D. BarrowThere was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.102
Carl SaganWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.103
John DeweyEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.103
Alton BrownThe kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.103
Edsger DijkstraComputer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.103
George Henry LewesScience is the systematic classification of experience.103
Greg GraffinIn the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk.103
Henri BergsonReligion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.103
Iain BanksMy point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.103
Indra DeviYoga is an art and science of living.103
Kary MullisScience grows like a weed every year.103
Lupita Nyong'oMy father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.103
Max PlanckAnybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'103
Norman FosterThere's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.103
Paul DaviesIs there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.103
Sam HarrisI consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.103
Seth MacFarlaneScience has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.103
Thomas HuxleyThe great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.103
Thomas SzaszFormerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.103
Wernher von BraunWe can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.103
William MastersScience by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.103
Antonio DamasioWhy do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.103
Bianca JaggerI wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.103
Charles Francis RichterNothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.103
Charles JencksIf you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.103
Claude BernardObservation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.103
David BrinChange is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.103
Edward ThorndikePsychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.103
Frederik PohlThe science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.103
Hannes AlfvenTo try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.103
Irving LangmuirThe scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.103
J. Michael StraczynskiIn every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.103
James D. WatsonScience moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.103
Leonard SusskindThe word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.103
Mae JemisonThe difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.103
Martin ReesCrucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'103
Nicholas SternHow is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.103
Walter GilbertThe virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.103
David ChalmersI think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.103
David EaglemanI think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.103
David Gerrold'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.103
Edward BachThe main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.103
Ernest RutherfordYou should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.103
George EadsI think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.103
John PolkinghorneIf the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.103
Kathy ReichsMany fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.103
Laurel ClarkScience, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.103
Mario J. MolinaI attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.103
Megan SmithThe things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.103
Paul NurseI have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.103
Richard CarmonaThe average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells.103
Sean M. CarrollI don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.103
Stanislav GrofUnlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.103
Aaron PatzerI always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.103
Alan PerlisA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.103
Ann DruyanMy knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.103
Howard AikenThe desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.103
Hugh WalpoleIn all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.103
Jean-Francois LyotardWhat is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.103
Rudy RuckerSome ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.103
Sofia KovalevskayaMany who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.103
Ariel GoreI've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.103
Chauncey WrightThe accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.103
Charles H. TownesI was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.103
John BardeenScience is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.103
Anita BorgUntil Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.103
James Mark BaldwinLike all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.103
Julie KlausnerWhy can't science work on making women more entitled in general? Or at least get us to listen to those L'Oreal ads that tell us how we're worth it?103
Magdi YacoubI actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.103
Marion Zimmer BradleyScience fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.103
Ronald GrahamMath is sometimes called the science of patterns.103
Jose PadilhaAs it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.103
James Henry BreastedIt is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.103
Jack L. ChalkerI have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.103
Jane HowardAnthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.103
Edmund HusserlExperience by itself is not science.104
Mike PenceWhile that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.104
Buzz AldrinGlobalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.104
Dmitri MendeleevIt is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.104
Franz GrillparzerScience and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.104
Friedrich SchleiermacherFor when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.104
Georges BraqueArt is made to disturb, science reassures.104
Howard NemerovNothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.104
Karen ArmstrongWell, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.104
Linus PaulingScience is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.104
Lisa RandallCreativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.104
Margaret J. WheatleyWe know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.104
Max PlanckA scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.104
Nancy PearceySchools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.104
Niels BohrYour theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. 104
Timothy LearyScience is all metaphor.104
Vinny GuadagninoMy political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.104
Walter LippmannThe radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.104
Werner HeisenbergNatural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.104
Wilhelm DiltheyIf there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.104
will.i.amIt should be mandatory that you understand computer science.104
Ahmed ZewailCuriosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.104
Anthony FauciDisagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.104
Auguste ComteIndeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.104
Brit MarlingScience fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.104
James D. WatsonThe ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.104
Kenneth R. MillerWe don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.104
Pierre BourdieuThe function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.104
Rudolf ArnheimModem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.104
Sara SheridanAs an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.104
Charles E. WilsonThat the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.104
Elizabeth HolmesToday, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.104
Ernest RutherfordAll science is either physics or stamp collecting.104
Laurel ClarkWe're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.104
Megan SmithWe need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.104
Phillip E. JohnsonThe assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.104
Ann DruyanCarl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.104
Marla GibbsScience of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.104
Muriel RukeyserThe universe is made of stories, not of atoms. 104
Rupert SheldrakeIn both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.104
Alan LightmanExcept for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.104
Albert J. NockThe position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.104
Pierre CharronThe true science and study of man is man.104
Tan Le! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.104
James Mark BaldwinPsychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.104
Matt RidleyI started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.104
Robert QuillenIf we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.104
Roger BaconAll science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.104
Avery BrundageSport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.104
Jonathan Maberry'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.104
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharScience is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.104
Jack W. SzostakI remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.104
Charles DarwinIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.105
Galileo GalileiIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.105
Alvin TofflerThe next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.105
DiogenesWhen I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.105
Donald NormanI think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.105
Jacques Yves CousteauWhat is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.105
Nicholas A. ChristakisIt is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.105
Paul AllenThe best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.105
Steve WozniakIn some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.105
Virginia PostrelAbundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.105
William GibsonA snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.105
Ahmed ZewailHuman resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.105
Cynthia KenyonIt was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.105
Earl WilsonScience may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.105
Henry PetroskiScience is about knowing; engineering is about doing.105
Jacque FrescoI don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.105
Leon Battista AlbertiWhen I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.105
Lord KelvinScience is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.105
Michael ShermerI say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.105
Robert LanzaI think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.105
Tony ViscontiToday's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.105
Abraham VergheseI think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.105
Richard PowersScience is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.105
Tim HoldenWe should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.105
Rudy RuckerIf we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.105
Thomas KuhnNormal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.105
Devdutt PattanaikI have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.105
James SpaderI grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.105
Roger BaconThe strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.105
Sam ErvinPolygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.105
Carl SaganWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.106
Edgar Allan PoeScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. 106
Isaac AsimovIndividual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.106
Edmund HusserlPure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.106
Mike PenceSadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.106
Bill NyeEvolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.106
Bonnie RaittEspecially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.106
Bruno MarsMusic is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.106
Charles BabbagePerhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.106
Dean KamenSporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.106
Donald KnuthI decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.106
Fareed ZakariaWhat we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.106
Franz BoasThe historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.106
Herbert A. SimonThe proper study of mankind is the science of design.106
Jacques Yves CousteauI am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.106
Jon Kabat-ZinnScience gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.106
Ken HamOur public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.106
L. Ron HubbardA science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.106
Lewis MumfordHowever far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.106
Marcel DuchampAll painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.106
Michael GoveOne of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.106
Paul BloomEmpty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.106
Paul DaviesThe birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.106
Paul DiracIn science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.106
Paul KleeThe worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.106
Ray KurzweilAll different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.106
Sally RideRocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.106
Stephen Jay GouldScience is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.106
Thomas HuxleyScience is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.106
Werner HeisenbergThe violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.106
William BernbachAdvertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.106
William GibsonI didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.106
Ahmed ZewailInvesting in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.106
Claude BernardIn teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.106
Eliezer YudkowskyNothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.106
Kenneth R. MillerLike many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.106
Leonard SusskindUnforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.106
Lord KelvinThe more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.106
Pranab MukherjeeTeaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.106
Robert LanzaModern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.106
Timothy FerrissThere are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.106
Arthur KoestlerThe progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.106
David AgusI believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!106
David Gerrold'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.106
John Boyd OrrScience has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.106
John PolkinghornePeople, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.106
Wilhelm ReichScientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.106
Josef AlbersAh, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.106
Mary DouglasIt seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.106
Michael P. AndersonScience was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.106
Michel GondryI've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.106
Mike JohannsScience is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.106
John Charles PolanyiFor science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.106
Joseph RotblatAt a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.106
Martin H. FischerDon't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.106
Michael BeheIt is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.106
Stephen LaBergeDream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.106
Thomas KuhnThe historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.106
Max BornAnd the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.106
Galileo GalileiBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. 107
William OslerMedicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.107
Aleister CrowleyThe conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.107
Carl Friedrich GaussThe enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.107
Edouard ManetIt is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.107
Ken HamThe public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.107
Ken RobinsonYou can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.107
Liberty Hyde BaileyScience may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.107
Linus TorvaldsI often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.107
Lisa RandallThere is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.107
Lois LowryI've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.107
Louis PasteurScience knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.107
Paul DaviesA permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.107
Paul JohnsonMarxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.107
Paul WolfowitzOne of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.107
Queen LatifahRunning for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?107
Satya NadellaI think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.107
Shimon PeresIn Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.107
Talcott ParsonsFrom all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.107
VitruviusFor an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.107
Aisha TylerPeople challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.107
Alan KayScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.107
Brit MarlingI didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.107
Edward TufteThe commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.107
Gaston BachelardThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.107
Geoff JohnsBatman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, know forensic science, and are both a bit introverted. In 'Flashpoint,' Thomas Wayne thinks Barry is crazy, but Barry thinks Thomas is crazy. It'll be really fun seeing those two trying to figure things out.107
Gillian AndersonI was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.107
M.I.A.My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.107
Maya LinI left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.107
Michael ShermerScientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.107
Rebecca WestBefore a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.107
Robert LanzaPerhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.107
Bonnie BasslerScience is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!107
David EaglemanPeople wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.107
Jean-Francois LyotardScientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.107
Muriel SparkArt and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.107
Tamar BraxtonIt's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.107
John CarpenterWhen I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.107
Joseph RotblatBut the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.107
Amy LowellIn science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.107
Charles DarwinFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.108
Karl PopperScience must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.108
Kurt VonnegutScience is magic that works.108
Adam SmithScience is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. 108
Jane GoodallWhen I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.108
Steven SpielbergRemember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.108
Ashley MontaguScience has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.108
Bill NyeScience is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.108
Bobby FischerI felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.108
David PerlmutterIn general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.108
Ellen OchoaUsually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.108
Emile DurkheimThe roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.108
Francis CollinsI'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?108
Freeman DysonUnfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.108
George LucasI'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.108
Karen ArmstrongMythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.108
Louis PasteurScience is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.108
Mary Kay AshAerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.108
Robert DelaunayNature engenders the science of painting.108
Rush LimbaughYoung people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.108
Sandra BullockNo one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.108
Temple GrandinMild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'108
Tom FeltonI like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.108
David HilbertMathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.108
Jared DiamondThousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.108
Leonard SusskindScience to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.108
Melinda GatesMy background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.108
Michael ShermerBut there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.108
Peter AgreIt is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.108
Laurel ClarkIt's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.108
Pierre SchaefferThe world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.108
John TempletonI'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.108
Jacob BronowskiScience has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.108
James Anthony FroudeScience rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.108
Isaac AsimovThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'109
William BlakeHe who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.109
Margaret MeadAnthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.109
Arnold H. GlasowThe fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. 109
Charles BabbageA powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.109
Craig VenterGenome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.109
Denis DiderotWhen science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.109
Freeman DysonThe world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.109
George LucasWhen I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'109
Henry AdamsNothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.109
Lawrence M. KraussThe illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.109
Louis PasteurThere are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.109
Naguib MahfouzIf we reject science, we reject the common man.109
Nancy ReaganNow science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.109
Neil ArmstrongGeologists have a saying - rocks remember.109
Nicole ScherzingerIt turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.109
ParacelsusMedicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.109
Paul SamuelsonEconomics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.109
Thomas HuxleyThe man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.109
Thomas S. MonsonI wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.109
VitruviusArchitecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.109
William Jennings BryanEvolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.109
Andre BretonNothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.109
David HilbertHow thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.109
Duane G. CareyThat's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.109
Edward SapirCultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.109
Jacque FrescoMan, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.109
James CameronI had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.109
Robert LanzaWe have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.109
Arthur EddingtonWe have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.109
Gary LarsonGreat moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.109
Jeremy RifkinIt may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.109
James BalogWhen you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.109
George Bernard ShawScience never solves a problem without creating ten more. 110
Ray BradburyThe best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.110
Stephen HawkingTime travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.110
J. Robert OppenheimerBoth the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.110
Ashley MontaguThe doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.110
Bill NyeScience is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.110
Carl Friedrich GaussFurther, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.110
Craig VenterMost people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.110
Dan BrownFor me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.110
E. O. WilsonBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.110
Huston SmithI am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.110
Louis PasteurThere does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.110
Octavia ButlerWhat I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.110
Stephen Jay GouldIn science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.110
VitruviusPerhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.110
Auguste ComteEvery science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.110
Bill ToomeyThe East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.110
Bruce LiptonFor science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.110
David BrinThere's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.110
Gabriel MarcelIt is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.110
Jim LovellFrom now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.110
Mae JemisonWe look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.110
Martin ReesThere is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.110
Michael ShermerBut because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.110
Mark Hamill'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.110
John Charles PolanyiSome dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.110
Murray Gell-MannYou know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.110
Nikola TeslaThere is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.111
Paulo CoelhoWe want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.111
Richard P. FeynmanPoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?111
Geoffrey CanadaMany schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.111
John CalvinKnowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.111
Leon KassBiology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.111
Louis D. BrandeisThere are no shortcuts in evolution. 111
Max PlanckWhence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.111
Michio KakuNo one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.111
Nancy PearceyLiterary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.111
Octavia ButlerAnd by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.111
Philippe PetitI am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.111
Prince CharlesIt is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.111
Sally RideFor whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.111
Sam HarrisScience does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).111
Seth ShostakSince the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.111
Auguste ComteTo understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.111
Eliezer YudkowskyTextbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.111
Leonard MlodinowPoliticians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.111
Leonard SusskindWhether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.111
Mary Baker EddyChastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.111
Mary RoachUltimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.111
Wladimir KlitschkoI have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.111
Afrika BambaataaThe Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.111
Christa McAuliffeIf I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.111
James BuchanOf all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.111
Jeremy RifkinWhat's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.111
Jacob BronowskiThe most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.111
Immanuel KantScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. 112
Edmund HillaryNobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.112
Charles LindberghI have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.112
Donald KnuthPeople think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.112
Eric KandelAs you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.112
Gustave FlaubertAll one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.112
Henri PoincareScience is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.112
John BurroughsIf we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.112
Olivia Newton-JohnWhen I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.112
Philip K. DickScience fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.112
Steven PinkerNortheastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.112
William BernbachI warn you against believing that advertising is a science.112
Martin ReesEverything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.112
Tony SnowSure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.112
Alice DregerWhen all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.112
Amelia BarrHuman relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.112
Jacob BronowskiMan is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.112
Isaac AsimovThere is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.113
Ivan PavlovBut man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.113
Jane GoodallI don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.113
Marie CurieAfter all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.113
Bill NyeTeaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.113
Edward AbbeyThere is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.113
Eli BroadThe happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.113
Ellen KeyLove, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.113
Eric KandelIn art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.113
Heinrich HeineYou cannot feed the hungry on statistics.113
Henrik IbsenIt is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.113
Huston SmithScience is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.113
Lawrence M. KraussFeynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.113
Michio KakuI am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.113
Paramahansa YoganandaThe Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.113
Stephen Jay GouldFew tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.113
Ursula K. Le GuinIf science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.113
William GibsonI think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.113
Christine PelosiTo far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.113
Ha-Joon ChangUnfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.113
Martin ReesThe bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'113
Mary Baker EddyIf Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.113
Michael ShermerMysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.113
Reggie WattsI don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.113
Russell BakerInanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.113
David ChalmersEven when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.113
Francis BaconIf a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.114
Jimi HendrixImagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.114
Ivan PavlovPerfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.114
Abraham MaslowThe science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.114
Anton ChekhovWhen you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.114
Daniel DennettThe problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.114
Ernest HolmesBorrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.114
Henri PoincareIt is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.114
Jack NicholsonI think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.114
Kyle ChandlerWhat I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.114
Viswanathan AnandI love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.114
Jacob BronowskiMan masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.114
Neil deGrasse TysonLet's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.115
Alton BrownEverything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.115
Don Miguel RuizI can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.115
Helena BlavatskyThe chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.115
Henrik IbsenI'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!115
Jules VerneThe Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.115
Julia RobertsMaking movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.115
Lewis MumfordThe artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.115
Lord ActonThe science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.115
Matthew McConaugheyI love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.115
Miguel de UnamunoScience is a cemetery of dead ideas.115
Stephen Jay GouldI don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.115
Cindy CrawfordI don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.115
Mahmoud AhmadinejadOne can not impede scientific progress.115
Margaret HeffernanBusiness is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.115
Pratibha PatilI believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.115
Tryon EdwardsScience has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.115
Maria MitchellWe especially need imagination in science.115
Carl SaganI am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.116
Galileo GalileiIt vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.116
Isaac NewtonTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.116
Neil deGrasse TysonAll the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.116
Amelia EarhartAviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.116
Otto von BismarckPolitics is not an exact science.116
Adam SavageIn the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.116
Charles BabbageIt is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.116
Friedrich August von HayekIt seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.116
Greg GraffinScience is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.116
Herbert SpencerScience is organized knowledge.116
Karl KrausScience is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.116
Sue Monk KiddI have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.116
Tony BlairGenetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'116
Wesley SnipesI like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.116
J. Michael StraczynskiI've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'116
Lucy LarcomWhatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.116
Martin ReesMaybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.116
Ludwig WittgensteinMan has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.117
Pope John Paul IIScience can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.117
Marie CurieIn science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.117
Milton FriedmanThe greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.117
Queen Elizabeth IIAt its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.117
Alfred AdlerThe science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.117
Charles BabbageThe accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.117
Edward AbbeyThat which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.117
Friedrich August von HayekThe credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.117
Octavia ButlerFantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.117
Thomas Babington MacaulayTo that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.117
James D. WatsonTake young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.117
Martin ReesIt's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.117
Edwin Hubbel ChapinFashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.117
Helen KellerScience may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.118
Steve JobsPart of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.118
Neil deGrasse TysonScience is basically an inoculation against charlatans.118
Thomas A. EdisonThere will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.118
P. T. BarnumScience is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.118
J. ColeI actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.118
Channing TatumI don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.118
Friedrich August von HayekThis means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.118
George LucasBefore I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.118
Greg BoyleKids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.118
Robert WinstonIn reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.118
StendhalLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.118
Robert LanzaSometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.118
Marcus AureliusNothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.119
Ralph Waldo EmersonScience does not know its debt to imagination.119
Alfred HitchcockWe seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.119
Ansel AdamsThere are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.119
Robert A. HeinleinThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.119
Bill NyeI hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.119
Charles KetteringPeople think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.119
Lewis ThomasVery few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.119
Sam HarrisScience is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.119
Seth ShostakThe split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.119
Temple GrandinI had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.119
Jean RostandWhen a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.119
Martin ReesI'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.119
Albert EinsteinOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. 120
Carl SaganSkeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.120
Neil deGrasse TysonThere is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.120
Swami SivanandaGo beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.120
Charles B. RangelFor a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.120
Henry AdamsSome day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.120
Joe RoganWhat's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.120
Jon Kabat-ZinnI loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.120
Michael SpecterThere is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.120
Myles MunroeIt is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.120
Shimon PeresThe older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.120
Tom RobbinsI think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.120
will.i.amIf you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.120
Duane G. CareyAnd, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.120
Jean RostandScience has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.120
Jonathan SacksScience will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.120
Carl SaganIf we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?121
Henry A. WallaceWhat we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.121
HippocratesThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.121
Thomas AquinasMoral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.121
Bill NyeThere's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.121
Brian GreeneArt makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.121
Nikola TeslaElectrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.122
Thomas HobbesScience is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.122
Jeff BezosThe human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.122
Andrea BocelliI've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn't kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn't define my life.122
Norman CousinsIt is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.122
Olivia WildeI've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.122
Paul ValeryThe folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.122
Thomas HuxleyScience has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.122
James BuchanNature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.122
Baruch SpinozaFreedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.123
HippocratesScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.123
Rene DescartesEach problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.123
Arthur C. ClarkePoliticians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.123
Charles DarwinOn the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.124
Isaac AsimovThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.124
Nikola TeslaThe history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.124
Adam SmithAdventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.124
Robert A. HeinleinThere is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.124
Arthur C. ClarkeIf an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.124
Harrison FordStarring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.124
Michio KakuWe have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.124
Nhat HanhScience and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.124
Thomas HuxleyScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.124
Donella MeadowsScientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.124
Martin ReesThe scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, 'clean energy' research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.124
Carl SaganWe've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.125
Stephen HawkingScientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. 125
Terry PratchettThe most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.125
Daisaku IkedaHumanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.125
Evangeline Lilly'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.125
Muhammad IqbalIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.125
Sam HarrisThe conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.125
Shia LaBeoufThere's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.125
Steve WozniakTeachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!125
Jeffrey KlugerScience has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.125
Herbert HooverNew discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.126
Marcel ProustAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.126
Bill NyeIf you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.126
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.201
David AttenboroughThe whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.201
Neil deGrasse TysonI can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.201
Stephen HawkingScience is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. 201
W. H. Auden'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'201
Tim BurtonWhen it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.201
Bill NyeUnlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.201
Robert Green IngersollReason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.201
William ShatnerThe mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.201
Daniel H. WilsonLuckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.201
Martin ReesScience is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.201
Terry PratchettIt cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.202
Margaret AtwoodFiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.202
Bill NyeYou can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.202
Thomas HuxleyIn science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.202
J. G. BallardScience and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.202
H. L. MenckenDemocracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. 203
Karl MarxThe product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.203
Alan AldaMarie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.203
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonArt and science have their meeting point in method.203
Henri Frederic AmielSociety lives by faith, and develops by science.203
Albert EinsteinIf the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 204
Franklin D. RooseveltIf civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.204
James MadisonThe capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.204
Liam NeesonI did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.205
Thomas HuxleyScience is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.205
Albert EinsteinScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. 206
William BlakeArt is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.206
Margaret AtwoodI hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.206
Bill NyeWhen we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?206
Nicolas Cage'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.206
Publilius SyrusArt has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.206
Jeff BezosMillions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.207
Samuel ButlerLife is not an exact science, it is an art.207
Jay LenoBush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.207
Neil deGrasse TysonScience literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.208
A. P. J. Abdul KalamEnglish is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.208
Steve MartinEverything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.208
Alan AldaI read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.208
Bertolt BrechtScience knows only one commandment - contribute to science.208
E. O. WilsonPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.208
Sam HarrisThe science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.208
Jean-Paul SartreI do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.209
Buzz AldrinThe biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.209
Kurt VonnegutI am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.210
Sam HarrisNothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.210
Isaac AsimovScience fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.211
Stephen HawkingFor years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.211
Alan DershowitzI think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.211
Buzz AldrinJust as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.211
E. O. WilsonIf history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.211
Albert EinsteinTo raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.212
George WashingtonThere is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.212
Richard DawkinsIt has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.212
William BlakeThe foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.212
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.212
Camille PagliaModern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.212
E. O. WilsonScience and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.212
Neil deGrasse TysonI like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.213
Woodrow WilsonWe have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.213
Margaret AtwoodMy brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.213
Alan DershowitzI don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.213
Michael J. FoxMedical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.213
Ray BradburyScience fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.214
Robert A. HeinleinOne could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.214
Buzz AldrinFor the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.214
Michio KakuPhysics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.214
Nikola TeslaElectrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.215
Erich FrommThe capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.215
Thomas SowellThe march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.216
Woodrow WilsonPolitics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.216
Ben CarsonThere's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.216
Gertrude SteinThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.216
Carl JungWe are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.217
Neil deGrasse TysonCarl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.217
Kurt VonnegutAll writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.218
Neil deGrasse TysonPart of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.218
Richard DawkinsI am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.218
Robert Anton WilsonThere is no complete theory of anything.218
George Bernard ShawA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.219
Leonardo da VinciScience is the captain, and practice the soldiers.219
Albert EinsteinScience is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. 221
W. H. AudenWhen I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.221
Jean-Paul SartrePolitics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.222
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. 223
Michio KakuYou cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.223
Michio KakuIn science, nothing is ever 100% proven.224
Douglas AdamsWandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.225
Kurt VonnegutI was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.225
David SuzukiEducation has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.225
Albert EinsteinThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.226
Thomas PaineEvery science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.301
John F. KennedyLet both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.302
Deepak ChopraTraditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.303
Karl MarxNatural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.303
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.303
Ezra Taft BensonTruth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'303
Oscar WildeSuccess is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. 304
Theodore RooseveltGermany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.304
Kurt VonnegutAs a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.304
Stephen HawkingThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.306
Dave BarryThe world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.307
George SantayanaTheory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.311
Stephen HawkingThe media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.312
Thomas CarlyleThis world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.312
Alexander PopeOne science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.313
Neil deGrasse TysonWe think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.314
Albert EinsteinMost of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.316
Deepak ChopraScience stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.316
Neil deGrasse Tyson'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.316
Richard DawkinsBut perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.316
Albert EinsteinNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. 317
Kurt VonnegutI had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.317
Stephen HawkingScience is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.317
Deepak ChopraWe must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.318
Neil deGrasse TysonIt was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.320
Bertrand RussellAlmost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.322
George SantayanaI believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.322
Aldous HuxleyScience has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.323
Elon MuskYou could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.323
Ray BradburyTouch a scientist and you touch a child.323
Dalai LamaI have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.324
Neil deGrasse TysonIf God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.324
Elon MuskMars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.325
Noam ChomskyIn the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.325
A. P. J. Abdul KalamScience is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.325
Oscar WildeRomance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.326
Richard DawkinsDarwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.326
Neil deGrasse TysonThe partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.401
Neil deGrasse TysonEver since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.402
Richard DawkinsScience - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.402
Bertrand RussellScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.403
Neil deGrasse TysonWhat are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.403
Albert EinsteinThe grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.404
Stephen HawkingI hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.404
Stephen HawkingScience can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.405
A. P. J. Abdul KalamScience is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it. 405
Albert EinsteinMost people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.406
Deepak ChopraI feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.406
Gilbert K. ChestertonScience in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.406
Neil deGrasse TysonOnce you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.406
Noam ChomskyI don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.407
Stephen HawkingI believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.408
Martin Luther King, Jr.Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.411
Stephen HawkingGod may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.412
A. P. J. Abdul KalamScience has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.414
Neil deGrasse TysonThe idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.415
Stephen HawkingScience predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.415
Neil deGrasse TysonYou can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.416
Albert EinsteinThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. 417
Neil deGrasse TysonIt's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.418
Stephen HawkingSome people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.420
Neil deGrasse TysonI was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.423
Richard DawkinsScience has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.423
Ralph Waldo EmersonBad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. 425
Elon MuskRockets are cool. There's no getting around that.501
Neil deGrasse TysonAsteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.501
Neil deGrasse TysonThe very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.503
Richard DawkinsIn the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.503
Bertrand RussellReligion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.504
Stephen HawkingThe universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.505
Bill GatesUnderstanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.507
Neil deGrasse TysonThe caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.507
Stephen HawkingPhilosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.507
Neil deGrasse TysonOne of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.508
Stephen HawkingIn the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.512
Neil deGrasse TysonAs history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.513
Neil deGrasse TysonScience is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.514
PlatoScience is nothing but perception.515
Neil deGrasse TysonMost religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.516
Neil deGrasse TysonMy parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar.518
Neil deGrasse TysonThe center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.522
Albert EinsteinIt stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.601
PlatoWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.602
Stephen HawkingIf you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.602
Stephen HawkingBefore we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.610
Noam ChomskyNo matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.613
AristotleTherefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.614
Steven WrightWhen I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.617
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheScience arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.702
Oscar WildeIn England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.715
Buzz AldrinMars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.715
Albert EinsteinThe man of science is a poor philosopher.720
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.818

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