976 private quotes tagged science

“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.” — Paul Valery

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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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“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.” — Louis Pasteur

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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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“Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.” — William Jennings Bryan

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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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“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.” — Neil Gaiman

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

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“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.” — Andre Breton

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“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.” — Jean Rostand

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“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.” — Arthur Erickson

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“If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.” — Herbert Hoover

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“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” — Henri Poincare

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

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“Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.” — Samuel Richardson

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

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“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” — Ashley Montagu

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“I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.” — John Polkinghorne

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“Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.” — James Lovelock

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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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“Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.” — James Lovelock

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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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“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.” — Russell Baker

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