Science Quotes

"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth"

"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified"

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"Science is all metaphor"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"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, Author

"It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Nature engenders the science of painting"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Science fiction is very healthy in its form"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner"

Mike Pence, Politician

"The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"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, Scientist

"There can be no truce between science and religion"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors"

Vernor Vinge, Writer

"I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever"

Philippe Perrin, Astronaut

"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"Science does not permit exceptions"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting"

Bill Bryson, Writer

"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements"

Christy Turlington, Model

"But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years"

Bill Condon, Director

"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic"

Aaron Allston, Novelist

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