976 private quotes tagged science

“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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“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?” — Carl Sagan

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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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“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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“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” — Albert Einstein

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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.” — Albert Einstein

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“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” — Adam Smith

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“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” — Earl Wilson

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“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.” — Sara Paretsky

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“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.” — Stendhal

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“Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.” — Henry W. Kendall

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“I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” — Will Durant

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“I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.” — Tom Shadyac

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“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.” — Simone Weil

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“Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.” — Ridley Scott

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“When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.” — Jean Rostand

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“When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.” — Scott Thompson

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“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!” — Henrik Ibsen

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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'” — Isaac Asimov

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