976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.” — Dan Rather

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“Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.” — Lewis Thomas

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“The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.” — Werner Heisenberg

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“We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.” — Lewis Thomas

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

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“Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.” — Kenneth L. Pike

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“I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.” — Michael Sheen

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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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“More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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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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“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.” — Edwin Land

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“Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.” — Alton Brown

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“It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.” — Alan Shepard

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“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.” — Paul Samuelson

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“Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.” — Kary Mullis

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“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.” — Kyle Chandler

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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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“I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.” — Dave Eggers

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“Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.” — Karen Armstrong

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

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