976 private quotes tagged science

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.” — Paul Dirac

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“When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.” — Walter Jon Williams

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“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.” — Karl Kraus

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“Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.” — Joseph Crowley

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“Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Politics is the science of urgencies.” — Theodore Parker

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“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.” — Vinny Guadagnino

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“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.” — Kevin J. Anderson

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“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.” — Peter Mullan

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“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.” — Dennis Kucinich

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“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.” — Edward Bach

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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” — Henry Adams

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“The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.” — David Attenborough

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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.” — Thomas Szasz

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“Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” — Honore de Balzac

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“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.” — Werner Heisenberg

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“If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.” — John Polkinghorne

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