976 private quotes tagged science

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.” — Thomas Huxley

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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” — Galileo Galilei

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

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