976 private quotes tagged science

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

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

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

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

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

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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.” — Hippocrates

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.” — W. H. Auden

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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” — Immanuel Kant

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