976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.” — Irving Langmuir

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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.” — Paulo Coelho

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

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

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“There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.” — John D. Barrow

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

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

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“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.” — Edmund Hillary

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“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.” — Martin Henry Fischer

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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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“When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.” — Leon Battista Alberti

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

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“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.” — Walter Lippmann

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“When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.” — Diogenes

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“Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.” — Charles Pierce

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“Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.” — Michael J. Fox

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“I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.” — Ellen Ochoa

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“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.” — Bruno Bettelheim

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“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.” — Thomas Huxley

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“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.” — Martin H. Fischer

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