976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.” — Susan Sontag

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“What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.” — James Lovelock

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

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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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“The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.” — Lewis Mumford

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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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“I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.” — Lewis Thomas

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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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“Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.” — Jonathan Sacks

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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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