976 private quotes tagged science

“Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.” — Emily Post

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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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“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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“And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.” — Justin Cronin

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“Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.” — Margaret Atwood

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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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“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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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” — John Calvin

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“I don't know anything about science.” — Rachel Weisz

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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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“Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.” — Wilhelm Reich

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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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“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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“The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.” — James Dyson

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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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