976 private quotes tagged science

“Art is I; science is we.” — Claude Bernard

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“I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.” — William Bernbach

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“Science always uses metaphor.” — James Lovelock

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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.” — J. G. Ballard

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“Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.” — Edward de Bono

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“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.” — Jean Rostand

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“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.” — J. G. Ballard

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“Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.” — Sarah Zettel

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“To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.” — Vannevar Bush

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“Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.” — John Polkinghorne

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“I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.” — David Eddings

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“Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.” — Francis Parker Yockey

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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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“We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.” — Robert Lanza

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“The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.” — Al Gore

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“The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.” — Jacob Bronowski

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

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“The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.” — Lewis Thomas

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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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“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.” — Jeff Bezos

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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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“I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.” — Gillian Anderson

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

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