976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.” — will.i.am

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“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.” — Neil Armstrong

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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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“God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.” — Pat Robertson

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“Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.” — David Hume

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“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.” — Alfred Adler

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“Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Science is organized knowledge.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.” — Eric Ries

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“Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.” — Eric Gill

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“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.” — John Polkinghorne

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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.” — Mary McCarthy

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“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” — Joan Jett

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“Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.” — Bill Richardson

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“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.” — Paul Klee

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“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.” — Tina Turner

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“My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.” — James Dyson

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“My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.” — Barry Commoner

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“I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.” — Nicolas Cage

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“I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device, It's just about a human being.” — Jack Nicholson

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