Science Quotes
We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.
If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing.
If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.
I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies
Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens.
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei
I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.
Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.
Consistency is the playground of dull minds
The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always sai
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Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.
Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.
Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life.
Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or
Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information it is a creative human activity.
To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself.-Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)
Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.