Top 100 Quotes About Of Science
#1. I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
Jean M. Auel
#2. Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality
Quammen, David
#3. The very conception of such a completion of the task of science is a contradction in terms. The quest of science is, therefore, by its nature a never-ending task in which every step ahead with necessity creates new problems.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#4. The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Edward Teller
#5. The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul
breaking the mental manacles
getting the brain out of bondage
giving courage to thought
filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#6. We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.
Jamie Hyneman
#7. Leave in a complex state of slumber
Your consciousness of science.
Look At your white face in the wine's red mirror
And then drink the mirror ... and your consciousness
Fernando Pessoa
#8. I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
Peter Ackroyd
#9. I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.
Charles Kingsley
#10. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
James Madison
#11. The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it ...
Thomas Jefferson
#12. To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts.
Alyson Richman
#14. The thing I loved, particularly, was the mystery of science and the idea that science doesn't know all the answers, but it is a process of finding out. It's not like science will give you the right answer and science knows everything. I love the mysteries of it.
Dallas Campbell
#15. The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.
George Henry Lewes
#16. Methodological naturalism is a "ground rule" of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify
Robert T. Pennock
#17. I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.
Dinesh D'Souza
#18. The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
#19. The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, 'indwelling.
Andrew Louth
#20. But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.
Francis Bacon
#21. 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.
Isaac Asimov
#22. We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
Kenichi Fukui
#23. My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman
#24. Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#25. ... nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.
Yann Martel
#26. To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage
#27. The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
Karl Popper
#28. The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
Paul A.M. Dirac
#29. Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
Frederick Sanger
#30. Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.
Pope Pius VI
#31. The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert
#32. The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
Aleister Crowley
#33. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#34. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
L. Ron Hubbard
#35. There had been no contradiction between a man of science and a man of religion. They provided different means to the same goal: understanding the works of God.
Colin Dickey
#36. Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
William P. Young
#37. Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.
M. Mitchell Waldrop
#38. The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
Nancy Gibbs
#39. All of science is largely formalized common sense.
Nancy Pearcey
#40. The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
Ray Bradbury
#41. Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
Alfred North Whitehead
#42. It just goes to show," Teddy said. "Love of science is universal across all cultures.
Andy Weir
#43. The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences
William Whewell
#44. I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Ian Hacking
#45. 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.
Cynthia Breazeal
#46. I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
Matt Groening
#47. Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.
George Sarton
#48. Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
Thomas Kuhn
#50. on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar's book The Limits of Science: 'I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers generally, for I believe it would give satisfaction and comfort to many in need of it if it were possible to discover good scientific and philosophic reasons to believe in God.
Richard Dawkins
#51. They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in the promises of technology, even when those promises fly in the face of common sense?
Dexter Palmer
#52. People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.
Adolf Von Harnack
#53. From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.
Edward Gibbon
#54. But while they continued staring into one another's face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.
Thornton Wilder
#55. We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
Matt Groening
#56. The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.
John Tyndall
#58. In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
Dan Shechtman
#59. The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
James M. Barrie
#60. That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.
Craig Venter
#61. IDEAS TRICKLE OUT OF SCIENCE, into the flow of commerce, where they drift into the less predictable eddies of art and philosophy.
Steven Johnson
#62. But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Michael Shermer
#63. 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Jack Horner
#64. God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
Robert Burns
#65. Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It's also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.
David Helvarg
#66. The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.
Manisha Sinha
#67. First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy
Jack Canfield
#68. Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.
Steven Chu
#69. In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
John Maeda
#70. Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#71. The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.
Ren Ng
#72. to put forth my final words on this subject...there is no dilemma, there is no problem...unless you, the believer...create the problem yourself by adopting a set of beliefs that puts you at odds with the ongoing labor of science and discovery. I am not telling you here that god does
Robert Butler
#73. It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
Marie Curie
#74. It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernal
#75. What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
Betty Sue Flowers
#77. I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of confusion among climate activists about the role of science, that scientists should be social and political leaders of this movement.
Margaret D. Klein
#78. We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
Polykarp Kusch
#79. You wanna know what's happening to New York?" he asked. "I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look at the covers of science fiction magazines from the thirties. That's what's happening to New York.
Donald E. Westlake
#80. I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.
Thomas Jefferson
#81. Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
James Rollins
#82. The famous conflict of science and religion has actually nothing to do with religion, but is simply of two sciences: that of 4000 B.C. and that of A.D. 2000.
Joseph Campbell
#83. The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.
Rodney Stark
#84. [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.
James Gunn
#85. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Matthew Arnold
#86. Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein
#87. The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#88. The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.
William Whewell
#89. The progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of reliable information, gained by chance or insight, from one set of men to their successors.
Gene Wolfe
#91. The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
James G. Frazer
#92. The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow
#93. I'm interested in [meteorology], but I'm more interested in gross misappropriations of the authoritative language of science. It feels rife with clarity, and yet you don't understand what it means. And I think that's beautiful.
Rivka Galchen
#94. After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.
Robert Aickman
#95. The fruits of science and innovation have nourished our society and economy for years, but nations unable to navigate our regulatory system are often excluded, as are vulnerable individuals.
John Sulston
#96. I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology ... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
Colin Powell
#97. The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of redemption,
David Frost
#98. The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
Dan Shechtman
#99. It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is to shut up; and the man of science is not at all likely to shut up.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
Jonas Salk
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