976 private quotes tagged science

“Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.” — Richard Dawkins

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“The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin

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“The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.” — Stephen Hawking

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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” — Erich Fromm

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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” — Stephen Hawking

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“That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.” — Bill Watterson

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“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.” — Karl Popper

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“There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” — Edward Abbey

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“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” — Alexander Pope

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“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.” — James Madison

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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.” — Noam Chomsky

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“Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.” — Bill Frist

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“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.” — Dave Barry

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.” — Karl Marx

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“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.” — Bill Gates

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“Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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