976 private quotes tagged science

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

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“People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.” — Donald Knuth

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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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“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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“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” — Richard Dawkins

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.” — Bertrand Russell

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