Science Quotes

"Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems"

Charles Henry Parkhurst, Clergyman

"Further, science is a collaborative effort"

John Bardeen, Scientist

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest"

Frank Knight, Economist

"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty"

John Carmack, Scientist

"Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"Truth in science is always determined from observational facts"

David Douglass, Physicist

"And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

"And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think"

Randy Newman, Comedian

"We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence"

John Fiske, Philosopher

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition"

Rod Serling, Writer

"One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone"

Ferdinand De Saussure, Educator

"The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Society lives by faith, and develops by science"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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