976 private quotes tagged science

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” — Thomas Berger

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“President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.” — Elizabeth Warren

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“Art and science have their meeting point in method.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.” — Alexis Carrel

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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” — Louis Pasteur

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“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” — David Suzuki

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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” — William Osler

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“I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.” — Maya Lin

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“The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.” — Charles Babbage

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“My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.” — Arthur Keith

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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.” — Roger Bacon

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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.” — William Gibson

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“A satellite has no conscience.” — Edward R. Murrow

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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.” — Hippocrates

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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” — John Calvin

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“And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.” — Justin Cronin

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“Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“Leave the atom alone.” — E. Y. Harburg

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“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.” — Will Durant

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“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.” — Jean Rostand

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“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'” — Erwin Chargaff

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