976 private quotes tagged science

“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.” — Swami Sivananda

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“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.” — Paul Dirac

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“The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.” — Gregory Bateson

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“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.” — Henri Bergson

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“When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.” — Anton Chekhov

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“In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.” — Paul Davies

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“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.” — Karl Kraus

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“The world is my country, science is my religion.” — Christiaan Huygens

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“Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.” — David Hilbert

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“In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.” — Johan Huizinga

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“Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.” — Michael Shermer

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“People who love science fiction really do love sex.” — Susie Bright

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“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.” — Dennis Kucinich

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“Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.” — Anna Torv

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“Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.” — Edward Teller

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“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.” — Edward Bach

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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” — Bruce Feirstein

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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” — Honore de Balzac

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“We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.” — Werner Heisenberg

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“If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.” — John Polkinghorne

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