976 private quotes tagged science

“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.” — Roger Bannister

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“Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.” — Mike Pence

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“My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.” — Melinda Gates

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“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.” — Marcus V. Pollio

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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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“I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.” — Alan Dershowitz

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“Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.” — Marcus V. Pollio

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“Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.” — Vince Cable

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“On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.” — Fredrik Bajer

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“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.” — Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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“It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.” — Charles Babbage

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“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.” — Edward Tufte

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“Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.” — Seth Lloyd

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“The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.” — Phillip E. Johnson

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“Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.” — Edward Thorndike

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“Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.” — Paul Davies

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“If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.” — Polykarp Kusch

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“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.” — John Glenn

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“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.” — Leslie Fiedler

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“Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.” — Larry Wall

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“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.” — Luther Burbank

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“From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.” — Talcott Parsons

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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” — Henry Adams

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“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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