Top 100 A Science Quotes
#1. The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
Joshua Lederberg
#2. A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman
#3. I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
Ridley Scott
#4. Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing
Peter Tosh
#5. Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#6. She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2
Alexia Purdy
#7. I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
J. Michael Straczynski
#9. She was a magnificent creature created in a science lab, the bride of Frankenstein. He, of course, comprehended that he was the monster. Freddy was Frankenstein, the creator.
Emmie White
#10. In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
B. Barmanbek
#11. Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.
Dexter Palmer
#12. We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#13. Revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?
William Buckland
#15. I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.
David Conyers
#16. When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
Brian Aldiss
#17. I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.
Denis O'Hare
#18. Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
Maimonides
#19. One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Elizabeth Moon
#21. There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.
Frederick Lenz
#22. 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.
Bobby Fischer
#23. If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#24. Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.
Michael Welch
#25. As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#26. The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.
Eduardo Galeano
#27. If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
Samuel Johnson
#28. The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.
Timothy Mo
#29. As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.
Richard Whately
#30. Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.
Debasish Mridha
#31. I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.
David Brooks
#32. It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
William Stanley Jevons
#33. I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#34. I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville
#35. There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.
Andy Weir
#36. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.
Karen Maezen Miller
#37. Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Henry Ward Beecher
#38. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
Ben Kingsley
#39. To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
Auguste Comte
#40. The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#41. You know what? I'm sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That's what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal
Tom Cruise
#42. Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
Terence McKenna
#43. I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.
Jake McDorman
#45. The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
Claude C. Hopkins
#46. [ ... ] while I felt that the Marxist attitude towards their theory was not at all admirable but was typically dogmatic and had all these properties which the Marxists usually said were characteristic of the churches. So I realized fairly early that Marxism was more of a church than of a science.
Karl Popper
#47. The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
Malcolm X
#48. Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e.,
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#49. Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
Steve Winwood
#50. 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.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#51. In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
Michael Shanks
#52. Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
#53. The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.
Alastair Reynolds
#54. The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.
Bruce Lee
#55. Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim
#56. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Peter Lynch
#58. Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
Amit Ray
#59. The individual's religion may be egotistic, and those private realities which it keeps in touch with may be narrow enough; but at any rate it always remains infinitely less hollow and abstract, as far as it goes, than a science which prides itself on taking no account of anything private at all.
William James
#60. Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Samuel R. Delany
#61. Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].
Halsey
#62. If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
Joss Whedon
#63. Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.
Jonah Berger
#64. When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.
Ray Bradbury
#65. I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
Suzanne Lee
#66. One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
William Stanley Jevons
#67. 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
W. H. Auden
#68. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#69. Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#71. A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge..
John Henry Newman
#72. One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.
Judit Polgar
#73. A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
G.H. Hardy
#74. Meditation is a science, not a superstition. Meditation
Osho
#76. I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"
David Brooks
#77. Was I a science experiment? Did he want to pin me down and dissect me?
Suzanne Young
#78. Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#79. These guys may not talk too much about relationships, but they sure do blush at telling moments, don't they? Maybe that's the key to understanding the opposite sex; I could invent a science, call it blushology.
Jody Gehrman
#80. There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.
Gayle King
#81. Whenever I approach a record, I don't really have a science to it. I approach every record differently. First record was in a home studio. Second record was a live record. Third record was made while I was on tour. Fourth record was made over the course of, like, two years in David Kahn's basement.
Matisyahu
#82. God, I swear I've never seen a more
nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.
Feather Stone
#83. In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.
Mortimer Wheeler
#84. There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.
Muad'Dib
Frank Herbert
#85. Despite its scientific
pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science
Robert Kuttner
#86. Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.
Frederick Lenz
#87. I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.
Hunter Hayes
#88. Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.
Millicent Fenwick
#89. Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
Coco Chanel
#90. I'd rather be known as a freak than a science project.
B. Mauritz
#91. What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.
Northrop Frye
#92. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.
Lev Grossman
#93. The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
Anne Carson
#94. We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.
William Stanley Jevons
#95. I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
William Hurt
#97. I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.
Amit Goswami
#98. It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#99. This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.
C.P. Snow
#100. Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.
William Buckland
