Science Quotes

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

Nature engenders the science of painting

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

I am not a scientist.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.