Top 100 Quotes About Science
#1. But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
K. Eric Drexler
#2. A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
Nancy Pearcey
#3. Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
Ridley Scott
#4. The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#5. I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
Damian Woetzel
#6. [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.
Edmund Crispin
#7. I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.
Alastair Reynolds
#8. Even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric, coarsely sensory-based, anthropomorphic understanding of the world around us.
Stanislaw Lem
#9. People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
Allan Hamilton
#10. The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'
Gregory Benford
#11. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...
Vijay Seshadri
#12. In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.
Robert Bateman
#13. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#14. They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.
Susan Meissner
#15. Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
Matt Groening
#16. Put glibly:
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.
Richard Hamming
#17. science, of a kind, is no less a precursor and a cause of civilization than it is a consequent.
Henry Smith Williams
#18. The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
Dan Shechtman
#20. In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
C.S. Lewis
#22. Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. 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
#24. I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Rodney Brooks
#25. In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
Peter Agre
#26. The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of redemption,
David Frost
#27. If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science
Michelle M. Pillow
#28. Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins
#29. 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
#30. Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
#31. I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?
Thank you. Anton.
Ben Goldacre
#32. I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC.
Daniel D. Palmer
#33. We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.
Bourdieu, Pierre
#34. It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.
Ivan Pavlov
#35. 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.
Michael Shermer
#36. 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
#37. Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Edward Thorndike
#38. 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.
Albert J. Nock
#39. Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.
James Hansen
#40. The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#41. ...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...
Stephen King
#42. 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
#43. Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#44. If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.
Graham Hancock
#45. intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes
Karen Joy Fowler
#46. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
Marco Rubio
#47. Nutrients always act as a team. Comprehensive nutritional science must rise above the traditional piece-meal approach.
Roger Williams
#48. The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
Buzz Aldrin
#49. Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.
Herbert Marcuse
#50. When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.
Craig T. Nelson
#51. The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#52. I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
Gale Anne Hurd
#53. The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
John F. Kennedy
#54. The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Owen Chamberlain
#55. In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.
Jonathan Rauch
#56. In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
Edward M. Lerner
#57. Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#58. Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.
Daniel Tosh
#59. The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
#60. Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science
Howard Margolis
#61. I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
Mark Haddon
#63. Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#64. Apparently I've been typecast in science fiction: I'm a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
Claudia Christian
#65. Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.
Dion Fortune
#66. Contrary to secularist myth, science in practice is innately and irrepressibly religious: it serves either God or idolatry. But one of the features of idolatry is deceit. In this case, idolatry conceals from itself that it is idolatry.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#67. Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Jill Lepore
#70. Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.
Damon Knight
#71. The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
Edward Jenks
#72. most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
Jonah Berger
#73. Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
Rodney Stark
#74. There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.
Jeff Greenfield
#75. Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.
Paul Stamets
#76. If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.
Thomas Jefferson
#77. Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.
Jacque Fresco
#78. Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
Steve Simmons
#79. The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.
Robert Hooke
#80. In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
Ahmed Zewail
#81. Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
Margaret Atwood
#82. Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.
Charlotte Gerson
#83. Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan Sontag
#84. He self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.
Nirmala Srivastava
#85. 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.
James Murdoch
#86. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
#87. All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#89. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.
Aristotle.
#90. At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis - about which more later - but in all likelihood you were taught nothing about death, risk, statistics, and the science of what will kill or cure you.
Ben Goldacre
#91. Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept. So we'd have somebody standing guard at the door to keep all the computer science guys out. We had to guard our women at all times.
Joe Manganiello
#92. Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
Asa Gray
#93. I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
Masi Oka
#94. Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
#95. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Will Durant
#96. Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth.
Marty Rubin
#98. ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
Terence McKenna
#100. Weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.
Peter F. Hamilton
