976 private quotes tagged science

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” — Carl Sagan

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“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.” — Douglas Adams

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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” — Madame Curie

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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.” — John A. Morrison

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“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.” — Albert Einstein

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“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” — Richard Feynman

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“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” — Charles Darwin

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“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“The greatest thing about being a scientist is you never have to grow up.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Context:After a girl told him she wants to be a scientist when she grows up.

Source:http://imgur.com/WjwvcOD

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“We're made of star stuff.” — Carl Sagan

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1ImgOcOPM&t=6m18s

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“I’m going to go down getting my data. That’s the only reason I chase. It’s for the data.” — Tim Samaras

Source:http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/biggest-storm/d...

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“This console here was the best part of my life. And I spent almost 10 years at this console. It is my life, it will always be my life. And I will never leave it behind.” — Gene Kranz

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“Back off man, I'm a scientist.” — Peter Venkman

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbSABWJiJc

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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.” — Albert Einstein

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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” — Yogi Berra

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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.” — Samuel Butler

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“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.” — Edouard Manet

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“There can be no truce between science and religion.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.” — Ray Bradbury

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