976 private quotes tagged science

“Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.” — Donald Knuth

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

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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” — William Blake

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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.” — Stephen Hawking

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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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“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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“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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“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.” — William Bernbach

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

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

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“Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.” — Woodrow Wilson

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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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“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.” — Bertrand Russell

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

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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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“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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“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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