976 private quotes tagged science

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.” — Lewis Mumford

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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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“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.” — Doris Lessing

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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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“I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.” — Cindy Crawford

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

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“We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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

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

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“Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.” — James Buchan

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

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“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.” — Irving Babbitt

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

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“If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.” — James Lovelock

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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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“True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.” — Cleveland Abbe

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

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