Soft Science Quotes

#1. From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied by the sound of branches bending and snapping, and the splintering of wood as trees were crushed or toppled onto their sides.

Peter James West

#2. The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

Ahmed Zewail

#3. By claiming that they can contribute to software engineering, the soft scientists make themselves even more ridiculous. (Not less dangerous, alas!) In spite of its name, software engineering requires (cruelly) hard science for its support.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#4. The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain's almond. They kept the people spellbound

Amira Aly

#5. If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

Jerzy Grotowski

#6. Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

Yeardley Smith

#7. Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk.

Rebecca McNutt

#8. But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.

Hafsah Faizal

#9. The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth

Simon Van Booy

#10. As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Diane Ackerman

#11. (Writers of Earth-invader science fiction, please remember to provide all your aliens with soft grasping hands or tentacles or some other fleshy fat appendages.)

Edward O. Wilson

#12. She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me.

M.K. Williams

#13. Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Vladimir Kramnik

#14. But I'll tell you more about that later ... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.

Subcomandante Marcos

#15. There are some that even beg for the Chamber," she could hear Isaar saying in the back of her mind. "Soft minded fools or broken souls that would rather live a fabricated existence than deal with reality.

Charles Hash

#16. Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

Lydia Millet

#17. By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

Humphry Davy

#18. Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy*
* some are dumb, too, but that's another story.

Gregory Cochran

#19. Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it's also my view that it's still lousy ...

Charlie Munger

#20. Third Time tricked, marks the fool.

Terry Goodkind

#21. God has had His chance to free me, and for reasons known to Him alone, He has pinned me to ill fortune, and although I have struggled, I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate.

Hannah Kent

#22. To my mind, that's a bigger and brighter idea than sitting at a lonely center surrounded by cold and distant astral lamps.

David Eagleman

#23. Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

Dean Koontz

#24. It's only crazy if we fail.

Henry Mosquera

#25. 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

#26. It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

Charlie Munger