976 private quotes tagged science

“Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.” — Freeman Dyson

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“I hate science fiction.” — James Dyson

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“I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.” — James Dyson

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“Science grows like a weed every year.” — Kary Mullis

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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” — William Osler

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“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.” — Marissa Mayer

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“Nature engenders the science of painting.” — Robert Delaunay

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“The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.” — Randy Newman

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“When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.” — Jane Goodall

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“That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.” — Charles Babbage

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“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.” — J. J. Abrams

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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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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” — Edwin Powell Hubble

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“I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.” — John Polkinghorne

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“People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.” — John Polkinghorne

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

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“Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.” — Eric Alterman

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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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“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.” — Nancy Banks Smith

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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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“And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.” — Octavia Butler

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“Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.” — Lev Grossman

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“Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.” — Stanislav Grof

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

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