976 private quotes tagged science

“Science is all metaphor.” — Timothy Leary

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“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” — Ernest Rutherford

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

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“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.” — Martin Henry Fischer

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

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

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

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

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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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