Science Quotes

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will be the science of Christianity.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.

Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.

Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs.

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

Well, isn’t that interesting. (Bubba) I ain’t your science experiment, Bubba. I don’t want to be interesting and I definitely don’t want to be a nubby treat for the zombies. (Nick)

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Consummated science is positively humble.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.