Science Quotes

Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Ocean is ocean.

Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.

If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

The inhibition of an inhibitor leads to the activation of an inhibitor of an inhibitory pathway. This is the point where most people might be tempted to give up on biochemistry!

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible.

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.

Science ... it works.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

There are many people who say there's a God somewhere up there but, God is nothing more than a formula. Just a part of some law of physics that we have yet to understand.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING, AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Every medicine is vain.

Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment.

If I can't have your babies, I'll damn sure deliver them!

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to no

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

Everything can be summed up into an equation.

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been