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Carl Sagan | Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. | 101 |
Karl Popper | Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. | 101 |
Willard Van Orman Quine | Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. | 101 |
Edmund Husserl | We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. | 101 |
Robert A. Heinlein | Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. | 101 |
Ada Lovelace | The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. | 101 |
Bjarke Ingels | In 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 Greene | Science 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 Dennett | Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. | 101 |
David Mamet | The 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 Ramsey | The 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 Hubble | Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. | 101 |
Eric Schmidt | The 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 Grinda | Learn 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 Graffin | Science 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 Kojima | Genetic 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 Smith | Science 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 Banks | Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. | 101 |
Imre Lakatos | If 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 Babbitt | The 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 Reitman | I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. | 101 |
Jules Verne | Science, 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 Pearson | Statistics is the grammar of science. | 101 |
Ken Ham | There'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 Stanford | From 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 Thomas | The 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 Pasteur | Science 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 Jeremijenko | The 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 Trethewey | I 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 Saadawi | To 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 Wallach | As 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 Chamberlain | The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one. | 101 |
Patricia Cornwell | I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. | 101 |
Sally Ride | Science 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 Thrun | The 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 Leacock | Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. | 101 |
Vera Rubin | Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. | 101 |
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | Science 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 Reisch | Don'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 Braun | Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. | 101 |
Wilhelm Wundt | Hence, 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 |
Avi | Everybody 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 Tuchman | Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. | 101 |
Bernard Marcus | I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities. | 101 |
Bruce Feirstein | The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. | 101 |
Claude Bernard | Art is I; science is we. | 101 |
Edward Teller | The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. | 101 |
Gregory Meeks | If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. | 101 |
Irving Langmuir | Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. | 101 |
Joan Jett | I'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. Miller | I 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. Anderson | We 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 Lorenz | It 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 Smith | Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. | 101 |
Nassau William Senior | We 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 Bacigalupi | When 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 Rowell | I 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 Sturgeon | I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. | 101 |
Afrika Bambaataa | I'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 Kemp | We 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 Bateson | Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. | 101 |
Guglielmo Marconi | Thanks 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 Rohrer | Science 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 Howey | One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers. | 101 |
John Polkinghorne | Science 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. Wilson | The 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 Berg | Novel 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-Miller | Jamaica 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 Dooling | The 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 Berger | The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. | 101 |
Warren Weaver | Science is not gadgetry. | 101 |
Will Harvey | What is research but a blind date with knowledge? | 101 |
Alan Perlis | Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. | 101 |
Alice Morse Earle | In 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 Harper | I 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 Vest | Looking 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 Shirky | I 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 Elliott | I 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 Lewis | It 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 Egan | Pop 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. Pagels | Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. | 101 |
Henry Taube | And 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 Gernsback | Let 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 Brough | He 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 Kahuanui | Because 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 II | It 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 Fairchild | When 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 Greenspun | We'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 Cullen | I'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 Johnson | I 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 Serling | There 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 Sheldrake | Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. | 101 |
Aaron Ciechanover | Biochemistry 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 Reynolds | I 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. Ghez | The 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 Edwards | Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. | 101 |
Brian Chesky | When 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. Townes | The 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 Kearney | They 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 Meyrink | Read 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 Bronowski | No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. | 101 |
James Balog | Climate 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. Maxwell | In 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. Fischer | Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. | 101 |
Stanley B. Prusiner | Neuroscience 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 Roberts | One 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 Latour | My 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 Ewango | Around 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 Chargaff | Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' | 101 |
Esther Hicks | If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.' | 101 |
John B. S. Haldane | There can be no truce between science and religion. | 101 |
Mark Russell | The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. | 101 |
Robert D. Hare | Science 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 Hartnett | If 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 Gold | I 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. Anderson | There 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 Yacoub | Leaving 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 Tempest | I 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 Oka | I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. | 101 |
Spencer Wells | What 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. Auel | Science 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 Barclay | He 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 Chandrasekhar | Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better. | 101 |
Marc Bloch | History 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 Reed | Before 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 Carnap | In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere. | 101 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger | Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. | 101 |
Johannes P. Muller | Physiology 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 Gunn | In 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 Murdoch | Through 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 Allen | We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. | 101 |
John Abbott | War is the science of destruction. | 101 |
John F. Tierney | On 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 Neumann | Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. | 101 |
John Langdon | Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. | 101 |
Nikola Tesla | Modern 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 Wilson | The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. | 102 |
Edmund Husserl | To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. | 102 |
Ada Lovelace | Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. | 102 |
Alan Turing | Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. | 102 |
Aleister Crowley | Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. | 102 |
Dan Brown | The 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 Perlmutter | The 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 Knuth | Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. | 102 |
Edwin Land | Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. | 102 |
Ethan Allen | In 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 Sanger | Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. | 102 |
Georges Seurat | Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. | 102 |
Harvey Cushing | In 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 Pauling | Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. | 102 |
Lisa Randall | People 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 Mayer | When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. | 102 |
Max Planck | Science 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 Murthy | Science is about unravelling nature. | 102 |
Neil MacGregor | Google 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 Johnson | The 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 York | In 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. Williams | Einstein 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 Thrun | If 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. Ramachandran | My 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 Braun | It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. | 102 |
William Gibson | Dreaming 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 Hawass | It'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 Fauci | You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing. | 102 |
Bruce Lipton | The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science. | 102 |
Charles Jencks | Science 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 Teller | A 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 Pohl | People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. | 102 |
Harry Knowles | For 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 Langmuir | To 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 Diamond | Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. | 102 |
Kirstie Alley | When 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 Secretan | Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence. | 102 |
Mae Jemison | Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience. | 102 |
Nathan Deal | Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. | 102 |
Nick Denton | My 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 Spinrad | As 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 Nazarbayev | In 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-Shiong | I 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 Filippo | Only 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 Agre | Written 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 Newman | Learn 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 Bush | Science 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 Gilbert | Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. | 102 |
David Chalmers | My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. | 102 |
Elizabeth Thornton | There 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 Deschanel | I 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 Klein | The 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 Aston | The 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 Carriger | I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk. | 102 |
Henry Norris Russell | Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. | 102 |
Henry W. Kendall | Many 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 Harger | We'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 Glenn | The 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 Beecher | No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. | 102 |
Norman O. Brown | In 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 Falardeau | I 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. Johnson | No 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 Riley | I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie. | 102 |
Burton Richter | Modern 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. Harburg | Leave the atom alone. | 102 |
Erez Lieberman Aiden | Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply. | 102 |
Evan Esar | Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. | 102 |
Gregory Petsko | For 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 Albers | It 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 Wilber | The 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 Geller | There 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 Johanns | We 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 Kusch | If, 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 Lysenko | And 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 Lightman | For 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 Adiga | In 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. Townes | There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. | 102 |
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard | In 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. Mortensen | I 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 Post | Nothing 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 Bardeen | Further, science is a collaborative effort. | 102 |
John Coleman | Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. | 102 |
Martin Feldstein | A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. | 102 |
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. | 102 |
Paul Nitze | We 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 Kenyon | My 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 Denisof | I 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 Bettelheim | Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. | 102 |
C. V. Raman | In 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 Breazeal | In 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. Chandor | I 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 Zawinski | Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. | 102 |
Jeffery Deaver | Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. | 102 |
John L. Phillips | We'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 Lederberg | I 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 Modine | If 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 Heuer | If 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 Lucid | When 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 Dana | He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. | 102 |
Dave Parnas | Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' | 102 |
Robin G. Collingwood | A 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 Pocan | We 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 Moran | This 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 Bernal | The 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 Hall | The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind. | 102 |
Michael Levitt | It'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 Sanborn | I 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 Jensen | Whenever 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 Zemin | The 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. Barrow | There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. | 102 |
Carl Sagan | We 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 Dewey | Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. | 103 |
Alton Brown | The 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 Dijkstra | Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. | 103 |
George Henry Lewes | Science is the systematic classification of experience. | 103 |
Greg Graffin | In 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 Bergson | Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. | 103 |
Iain Banks | My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. | 103 |
Indra Devi | Yoga is an art and science of living. | 103 |
Kary Mullis | Science grows like a weed every year. | 103 |
Lupita Nyong'o | My 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 Planck | Anybody 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 Foster | There'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 Davies | Is 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 Harris | I 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 MacFarlane | Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. | 103 |
Thomas Huxley | The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. | 103 |
Thomas Szasz | Formerly, 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 Braun | We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. | 103 |
William Masters | Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. | 103 |
Antonio Damasio | Why 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 Jagger | I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. | 103 |
Charles Francis Richter | Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. | 103 |
Charles Jencks | If 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 Bernard | Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. | 103 |
David Brin | Change 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 Thorndike | Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. | 103 |
Frederik Pohl | The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. | 103 |
Hannes Alfven | To 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 Langmuir | The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. | 103 |
J. Michael Straczynski | In 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. Watson | Science 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 Susskind | The 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 Jemison | The 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 Rees | Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' | 103 |
Nicholas Stern | How 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 Gilbert | The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. | 103 |
David Chalmers | I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. | 103 |
David Eagleman | I 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 Bach | The 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 Rutherford | You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. | 103 |
George Eads | I 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 Polkinghorne | If 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 Reichs | Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. | 103 |
Laurel Clark | Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries. | 103 |
Mario J. Molina | I 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 Smith | The 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 Nurse | I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. | 103 |
Richard Carmona | The 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. Carroll | I 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 Grof | Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. | 103 |
Aaron Patzer | I 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 Perlis | A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. | 103 |
Ann Druyan | My 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 Aiken | The 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 Walpole | In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. | 103 |
Jean-Francois Lyotard | What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. | 103 |
Rudy Rucker | Some 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 Kovalevskaya | Many 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 Gore | I'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 Wright | The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. | 103 |
Charles H. Townes | I 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 Bardeen | Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. | 103 |
Anita Borg | Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist. | 103 |
James Mark Baldwin | Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. | 103 |
Julie Klausner | Why 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 Yacoub | I 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 Bradley | Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. | 103 |
Ronald Graham | Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. | 103 |
Jose Padilha | As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not. | 103 |
James Henry Breasted | It 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. Chalker | I 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 Howard | Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. | 103 |
Edmund Husserl | Experience by itself is not science. | 104 |
Mike Pence | While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. | 104 |
Buzz Aldrin | Globalisation 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 Mendeleev | It 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 Grillparzer | Science 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 Schleiermacher | For 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 Braque | Art is made to disturb, science reassures. | 104 |
Howard Nemerov | Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. | 104 |
Karen Armstrong | Well, 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 Pauling | Science 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 Randall | Creativity 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. Wheatley | We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. | 104 |
Max Planck | A 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 Pearcey | Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. | 104 |
Niels Bohr | Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. | 104 |
Timothy Leary | Science is all metaphor. | 104 |
Vinny Guadagnino | My 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 Lippmann | The 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 Heisenberg | Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. | 104 |
Wilhelm Dilthey | If 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.am | It should be mandatory that you understand computer science. | 104 |
Ahmed Zewail | Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown. | 104 |
Anthony Fauci | Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science. | 104 |
Auguste Comte | Indeed, 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 Marling | Science 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. Watson | The 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. Miller | We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. | 104 |
Pierre Bourdieu | The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. | 104 |
Rudolf Arnheim | Modem 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 Sheridan | As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. | 104 |
Charles E. Wilson | That 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 Holmes | Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue. | 104 |
Ernest Rutherford | All science is either physics or stamp collecting. | 104 |
Laurel Clark | We'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 Smith | We 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. Johnson | The 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 Druyan | Carl 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 Gibbs | Science 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 Rukeyser | The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. | 104 |
Rupert Sheldrake | In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. | 104 |
Alan Lightman | Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. | 104 |
Albert J. Nock | The 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 Charron | The 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 Baldwin | Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. | 104 |
Matt Ridley | I 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 Quillen | If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. | 104 |
Roger Bacon | All 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 Brundage | Sport 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 Chandrasekhar | Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. | 104 |
Jack W. Szostak | I 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 Darwin | Ignorance 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 Galilei | In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. | 105 |
Alvin Toffler | The 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 |
Diogenes | When 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 Norman | I 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 Cousteau | What 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. Christakis | It 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 Allen | The 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 Wozniak | In 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 Postrel | Abundant 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 Gibson | A 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 Zewail | Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. | 105 |
Cynthia Kenyon | It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science. | 105 |
Earl Wilson | Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. | 105 |
Henry Petroski | Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing. | 105 |
Jacque Fresco | I 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 Alberti | When 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 Kelvin | Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. | 105 |
Michael Shermer | I 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 Lanza | I 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 Visconti | Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. | 105 |
Abraham Verghese | I 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 Powers | Science 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 Holden | We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. | 105 |
Rudy Rucker | If 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 Kuhn | Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. | 105 |
Devdutt Pattanaik | I 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 Spader | I 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 Bacon | The 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 Ervin | Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. | 105 |
Carl Sagan | We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. | 106 |
Edgar Allan Poe | Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. | 106 |
Isaac Asimov | Individual 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 Husserl | Pure 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 Pence | Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. | 106 |
Bill Nye | Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology. | 106 |
Bonnie Raitt | Especially 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 Mars | Music 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 Babbage | Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. | 106 |
Dean Kamen | Sporting 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 Knuth | I 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 Zakaria | What 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 Boas | The 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. Simon | The proper study of mankind is the science of design. | 106 |
Jacques Yves Cousteau | I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. | 106 |
Jon Kabat-Zinn | Science 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 Ham | Our 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 Hubbard | A 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 Mumford | However 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 Duchamp | All 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 Gove | One 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 Bloom | Empty 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 Davies | The 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 Dirac | In 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 Klee | The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. | 106 |
Ray Kurzweil | All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. | 106 |
Sally Ride | Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. | 106 |
Stephen Jay Gould | Science 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 Huxley | Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. | 106 |
Werner Heisenberg | The 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 Bernbach | Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. | 106 |
William Gibson | I 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 Zewail | Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future. | 106 |
Claude Bernard | In 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 Yudkowsky | Nothing 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. Miller | Like 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 Susskind | Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. | 106 |
Lord Kelvin | The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. | 106 |
Pranab Mukherjee | Teaching 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 Lanza | Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. | 106 |
Timothy Ferriss | There 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 Koestler | The 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 Agus | I 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 Orr | Science 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 Polkinghorne | People, 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 Reich | Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. | 106 |
Josef Albers | Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. | 106 |
Mary Douglas | It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. | 106 |
Michael P. Anderson | Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. | 106 |
Michel Gondry | I'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 Johanns | Science 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 Polanyi | For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. | 106 |
Joseph Rotblat | At 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. Fischer | Don'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 Behe | It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. | 106 |
Stephen LaBerge | Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. | 106 |
Thomas Kuhn | The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. | 106 |
Max Born | And 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 Galilei | By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. | 107 |
William Osler | Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. | 107 |
Aleister Crowley | The 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 Gauss | The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. | 107 |
Edouard Manet | It 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 Ham | The 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 Robinson | You 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 Bailey | Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. | 107 |
Linus Torvalds | I 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 Randall | There 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 Lowry | I'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 Pasteur | Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. | 107 |
Paul Davies | A 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 Johnson | Marxism, 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 Wolfowitz | One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. | 107 |
Queen Latifah | Running 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 Nadella | I 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 Peres | In 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 Parsons | From 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 |
Vitruvius | For 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 Tyler | People 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 Kay | Science 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 Marling | I 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 Tufte | The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. | 107 |
Gaston Bachelard | The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. | 107 |
Geoff Johns | Batman 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 Anderson | I 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 Lin | I 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 Shermer | Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. | 107 |
Rebecca West | Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. | 107 |
Robert Lanza | Perhaps, 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 Bassler | Science 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 Eagleman | People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. | 107 |
Jean-Francois Lyotard | Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. | 107 |
Muriel Spark | Art 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 Braxton | It'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 Carpenter | When 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 Rotblat | But 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 Lowell | In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. | 107 |
Charles Darwin | False 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 Popper | Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. | 108 |
Kurt Vonnegut | Science is magic that works. | 108 |
Adam Smith | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. | 108 |
Jane Goodall | When 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 Spielberg | Remember, 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 Montagu | Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. | 108 |
Bill Nye | Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back. | 108 |
Bobby Fischer | I 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 Perlmutter | In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. | 108 |
Ellen Ochoa | Usually, 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 Durkheim | The 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 Collins | I'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 Dyson | Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. | 108 |
George Lucas | I'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 Armstrong | Mythology 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 Pasteur | 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. | 108 |
Mary Kay Ash | Aerodynamically, 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 Delaunay | Nature engenders the science of painting. | 108 |
Rush Limbaugh | Young 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 Bullock | No 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 Grandin | Mild 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 Felton | I 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 Hilbert | Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. | 108 |
Jared Diamond | Thousands 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 Susskind | Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. | 108 |
Melinda Gates | My 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 Shermer | But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. | 108 |
Peter Agre | It 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 Clark | It'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 Schaeffer | The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. | 108 |
John Templeton | I'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 Bronowski | Science 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 Froude | Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. | 108 |
Isaac Asimov | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' | 109 |
William Blake | He 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 Mead | Anthropology 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. Glasow | The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. | 109 |
Charles Babbage | A 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 Venter | Genome 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 Diderot | When 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 Dyson | The 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 Lucas | When 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 Adams | Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. | 109 |
Lawrence M. Krauss | The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. | 109 |
Louis Pasteur | There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. | 109 |
Naguib Mahfouz | If we reject science, we reject the common man. | 109 |
Nancy Reagan | Now 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 Armstrong | Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. | 109 |
Nicole Scherzinger | It 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 |
Paracelsus | Medicine 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 Samuelson | Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. | 109 |
Thomas Huxley | The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. | 109 |
Thomas S. Monson | I 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 |
Vitruvius | Architecture 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 Bryan | Evolution 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 Breton | Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. | 109 |
David Hilbert | How 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. Carey | That'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 Sapir | Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. | 109 |
Jacque Fresco | Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth. | 109 |
James Cameron | I 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 Lanza | We 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 Eddington | We 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 Larson | Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. | 109 |
Jeremy Rifkin | It 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 Balog | When 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 Shaw | Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. | 110 |
Ray Bradbury | The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. | 110 |
Stephen Hawking | Time 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 Oppenheimer | Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. | 110 |
Ashley Montagu | The 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 Nye | Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better. | 110 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss | Further, 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 Venter | Most 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 Brown | For 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. Wilson | Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. | 110 |
Huston Smith | I 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 Pasteur | There 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 Butler | What 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 Gould | In 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 |
Vitruvius | Perhaps, 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 Comte | Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. | 110 |
Bill Toomey | The 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 Lipton | For 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 Brin | There'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 Marcel | It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. | 110 |
Jim Lovell | From 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 Jemison | We 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 Rees | There 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 Shermer | But 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 Polanyi | Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. | 110 |
Murray Gell-Mann | You 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 Tesla | There 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 Coelho | We 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. Feynman | Poets 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 Canada | Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. | 111 |
John Calvin | Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. | 111 |
Leon Kass | Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. | 111 |
Louis D. Brandeis | There are no shortcuts in evolution. | 111 |
Max Planck | Whence 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 Kaku | No 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 Pearcey | Literary 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 Butler | And 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 Petit | I 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 Charles | It 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 Ride | For 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 Harris | Science 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 Shostak | Since 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 Comte | To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. | 111 |
Eliezer Yudkowsky | Textbook 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 Mlodinow | Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda. | 111 |
Leonard Susskind | Whether 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 Eddy | Chastity 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 Roach | Ultimately, 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 Klitschko | I 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 Bambaataa | The 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 McAuliffe | If 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 Buchan | Of 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 Rifkin | What'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 Bronowski | The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. | 111 |
Immanuel Kant | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | 112 |
Edmund Hillary | Nobody 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 Lindbergh | I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. | 112 |
Donald Knuth | People 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 Kandel | As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. | 112 |
Gustave Flaubert | All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. | 112 |
Henri Poincare | Science 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 Burroughs | If 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-John | When 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. Dick | Science 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 Pinker | Northeastern 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 Bernbach | I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. | 112 |
Martin Rees | Everything, 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 Snow | Sure, 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 Dreger | When 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 Barr | Human 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 Bronowski | Man 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 Asimov | There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. | 113 |
Ivan Pavlov | But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. | 113 |
Jane Goodall | I 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 Curie | After 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 Nye | Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate. | 113 |
Edward Abbey | There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. | 113 |
Eli Broad | The 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 Key | Love, 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 Kandel | In 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 Heine | You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. | 113 |
Henrik Ibsen | It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. | 113 |
Huston Smith | Science 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. Krauss | Feynman 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 Kaku | I 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 Yogananda | The 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 Gould | Few 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 Guin | If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. | 113 |
William Gibson | I 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 Pelosi | To 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 Chang | Unfortunately, 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 Rees | The 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 Eddy | If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. | 113 |
Michael Shermer | Mysteries 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 Watts | I 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 Baker | Inanimate 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 Chalmers | Even 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 Bacon | If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. | 114 |
Jimi Hendrix | Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. | 114 |
Ivan Pavlov | Perfect 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 Maslow | The 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 Chekhov | When 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 Dennett | The 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 Holmes | Borrowing 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 Poincare | It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. | 114 |
Jack Nicholson | I 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 Chandler | What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it. | 114 |
Viswanathan Anand | I 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 Bronowski | Man 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 Tyson | Let'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 Brown | Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. | 115 |
Don Miguel Ruiz | I 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 Blavatsky | The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. | 115 |
Henrik Ibsen | I'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 Verne | The 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 Roberts | Making 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 Mumford | The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. | 115 |
Lord Acton | The 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 McConaughey | I 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 Unamuno | Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. | 115 |
Stephen Jay Gould | I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. | 115 |
Cindy Crawford | I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. | 115 |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | One can not impede scientific progress. | 115 |
Margaret Heffernan | Business 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 Patil | I 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 Edwards | Science 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 Mitchell | We especially need imagination in science. | 115 |
Carl Sagan | I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. | 116 |
Galileo Galilei | It 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 Newton | To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. | 116 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | All 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 Earhart | Aviation, 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 Bismarck | Politics is not an exact science. | 116 |
Adam Savage | In 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 Babbage | It 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 Hayek | It 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 Graffin | Science 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 Spencer | Science is organized knowledge. | 116 |
Karl Kraus | Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. | 116 |
Sue Monk Kidd | I 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 Blair | Genetic 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 Snipes | I 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 Straczynski | I'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 Larcom | Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ. | 116 |
Martin Rees | Maybe 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 Wittgenstein | Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. | 117 |
Pope John Paul II | Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. | 117 |
Marie Curie | In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. | 117 |
Milton Friedman | The 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 II | At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession. | 117 |
Alfred Adler | The 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 Babbage | The 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 Abbey | That 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 Hayek | The 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 Butler | Fantasy 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 Macaulay | To 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. Watson | Take 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 Rees | It'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 Chapin | Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. | 117 |
Helen Keller | Science 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 Jobs | Part 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 Tyson | Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans. | 118 |
Thomas A. Edison | There 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. Barnum | Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. | 118 |
J. Cole | I 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 Tatum | I 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 Hayek | This 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 Lucas | Before 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 Boyle | Kids 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 Winston | In 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 |
Stendhal | Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. | 118 |
Robert Lanza | Sometime 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 Aurelius | Nothing 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 Emerson | Science does not know its debt to imagination. | 119 |
Alfred Hitchcock | We 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 Adams | There 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. Heinlein | The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. | 119 |
Bill Nye | I 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 Kettering | People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. | 119 |
Lewis Thomas | Very 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 Harris | Science 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 Shostak | The 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 Grandin | I 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 Rostand | When 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 Rees | I'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 Einstein | Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. | 120 |
Carl Sagan | Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. | 120 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | There 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 Sivananda | Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. | 120 |
Charles B. Rangel | For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101. | 120 |
Henry Adams | Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. | 120 |
Joe Rogan | What'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-Zinn | I 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 Specter | There 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 Munroe | It 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 Peres | The 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 Robbins | I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. | 120 |
will.i.am | If 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. Carey | And, 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 Rostand | Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. | 120 |
Jonathan Sacks | Science 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 Sagan | If 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. Wallace | What 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 |
Hippocrates | There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. | 121 |
Thomas Aquinas | Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. | 121 |
Bill Nye | There'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 Greene | Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. | 121 |
Nikola Tesla | Electrical 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 Hobbes | Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. | 122 |
Jeff Bezos | The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. | 122 |
Andrea Bocelli | I'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 Cousins | It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. | 122 |
Olivia Wilde | I'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 Valery | The 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 Huxley | Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. | 122 |
James Buchan | Nature 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 Spinoza | Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. | 123 |
Hippocrates | Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. | 123 |
Rene Descartes | Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. | 123 |
Arthur C. Clarke | Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. | 123 |
Charles Darwin | On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. | 124 |
Isaac Asimov | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. | 124 |
Nikola Tesla | The 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 Smith | Adventure 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. Heinlein | There 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. Clarke | If 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 Ford | Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction. | 124 |
Michio Kaku | We 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 Hanh | Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being. | 124 |
Thomas Huxley | Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. | 124 |
Donella Meadows | Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. | 124 |
Martin Rees | The 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 Sagan | We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. | 125 |
Stephen Hawking | Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. | 125 |
Terry Pratchett | The 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 Ikeda | Humanity 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 Iqbal | Indeed, 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 Harris | The 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 LaBeouf | There'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 Wozniak | Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! | 125 |
Jeffrey Kluger | Science 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 Hoover | New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. | 126 |
Marcel Proust | As 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 Nye | If 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 Emerson | Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. | 201 |
David Attenborough | The 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 Tyson | I 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 Hawking | Science 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 Burton | When 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 Nye | Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past. | 201 |
Robert Green Ingersoll | Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. | 201 |
William Shatner | The 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. Wilson | Luckily, 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 Rees | Science 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 Pratchett | It 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 Atwood | Fiction 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 Nye | You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else. | 202 |
Thomas Huxley | In 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. Ballard | Science 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. Mencken | Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. | 203 |
Karl Marx | The 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 Alda | Marie 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-Lytton | Art and science have their meeting point in method. | 203 |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Society lives by faith, and develops by science. | 203 |
Albert Einstein | If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. | 204 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | If 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 Madison | The 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 Neeson | I 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 Huxley | Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. | 205 |
Albert Einstein | Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. | 206 |
William Blake | Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. | 206 |
Margaret Atwood | I 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 Nye | When 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 Syrus | Art 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 Bezos | Millions 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 Butler | Life is not an exact science, it is an art. | 207 |
Jay Leno | Bush 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 Tyson | Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. | 208 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | English 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 Martin | Everything 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 Alda | I 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 Brecht | Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science. | 208 |
E. O. Wilson | Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. | 208 |
Sam Harris | The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. | 208 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | I 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 Aldrin | The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace. | 209 |
Kurt Vonnegut | I 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 Harris | Nothing 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 Asimov | Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. | 211 |
Stephen Hawking | For 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 Dershowitz | I 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 Aldrin | Just 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. Wilson | If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. | 211 |
Albert Einstein | To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. | 212 |
George Washington | There 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 Dawkins | It 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 Blake | The 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 Paglia | Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. | 212 |
E. O. Wilson | Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. | 212 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | I 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 Wilson | We 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 Atwood | My 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 Dershowitz | I 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. Fox | Medical 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 Bradbury | Science 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. Heinlein | One 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 Aldrin | For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. | 214 |
Michio Kaku | Physics 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 Tesla | Electrical 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 Fromm | The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. | 215 |
Thomas Sowell | The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. | 216 |
Woodrow Wilson | Politics 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 Carson | There'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 Stein | The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. | 216 |
Carl Jung | We 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 Tyson | Carl 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 Vonnegut | All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. | 218 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Part 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 Dawkins | I 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 Wilson | There is no complete theory of anything. | 218 |
George Bernard Shaw | A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. | 219 |
Leonardo da Vinci | Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. | 219 |
Albert Einstein | Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. | 221 |
W. H. Auden | When 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 Sartre | Politics 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 Kaku | You 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 Kaku | In science, nothing is ever 100% proven. | 224 |
Douglas Adams | Wandering 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 Vonnegut | I 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 Suzuki | Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. | 225 |
Albert Einstein | The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. | 226 |
Thomas Paine | Every 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. Kennedy | Let 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 Chopra | Traditional 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 Marx | Natural 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 Benson | Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.' | 303 |
Oscar Wilde | Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. | 304 |
Theodore Roosevelt | Germany 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 Vonnegut | As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. | 304 |
Stephen Hawking | The 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 Barry | The 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 Santayana | Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. | 311 |
Stephen Hawking | The 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 Carlyle | This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. | 312 |
Alexander Pope | One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. | 313 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | We 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 Einstein | Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. | 316 |
Deepak Chopra | Science 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 Dawkins | But 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 Einstein | No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. | 317 |
Kurt Vonnegut | I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. | 317 |
Stephen Hawking | Science 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 Chopra | We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology. | 318 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | It 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 Russell | Almost 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 Santayana | I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. | 322 |
Aldous Huxley | Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. | 323 |
Elon Musk | You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases. | 323 |
Ray Bradbury | Touch a scientist and you touch a child. | 323 |
Dalai Lama | I 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 Tyson | If 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 Musk | Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian. | 325 |
Noam Chomsky | In 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 Kalam | Science 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 Wilde | Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. | 326 |
Richard Dawkins | Darwin 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 Tyson | The 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 Tyson | Ever 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 Dawkins | Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works. | 402 |
Bertrand Russell | Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. | 403 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | What 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 Einstein | The 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 Hawking | I 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 Hawking | Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. | 405 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it. | 405 |
Albert Einstein | Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. | 406 |
Deepak Chopra | I 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. Chesterton | Science 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 Tyson | Once 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 Chomsky | I 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 Hawking | I 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 Hawking | God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator. | 412 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Science 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 Tyson | The 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 Hawking | Science 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 Tyson | You 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 Einstein | The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. | 417 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | It'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 Hawking | Some 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 Tyson | I 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 Dawkins | Science 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 Emerson | Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. | 425 |
Elon Musk | Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. | 501 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Asteroids 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 Tyson | The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. | 503 |
Richard Dawkins | In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. | 503 |
Bertrand Russell | Religion 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 Hawking | The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. | 505 |
Bill Gates | Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. | 507 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | The 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 Hawking | Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. | 507 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | One 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 Hawking | In 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 Tyson | As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. | 513 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Science 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 |
Plato | Science is nothing but perception. | 515 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Most 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 Tyson | My 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 Tyson | The 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 Einstein | It 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 |
Plato | Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. | 602 |
Stephen Hawking | If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. | 602 |
Stephen Hawking | Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. | 610 |
Noam Chomsky | No 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 |
Aristotle | Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. | 614 |
Steven Wright | When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. | 617 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. | 702 |
Oscar Wilde | In 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 Aldrin | Mars 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 Einstein | The man of science is a poor philosopher. | 720 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. | 818 |
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