976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.” — Steven Spielberg

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“Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.” — Roy H. Williams

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“We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.” — Deepak Chopra

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

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“'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.” — Julia Roberts

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“I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.” — Temple Grandin

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“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.” — Aleister Crowley

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“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.” — Marie Curie

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“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.” — Neil LaBute

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“The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.” — Terry Pratchett

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“Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

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“I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.” — Liam Neeson

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“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.” — Marie Curie

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“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.” — Henri Poincare

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“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.” — Terry Pratchett

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“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.” — Mary Douglas

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“Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.” — Wanda Sykes

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“Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.” — Freeman Dyson

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“I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.” — James Dyson

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