Science Quotes

"Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out"

"Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor"

Emily Post, Author

"I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"People who love science fiction really do love sex"

Susie Bright, Writer

"I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex"

Marina Sirtis, Actress

"Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery"

Richard Powers, Novelist

"When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data"

Henry M. Morris, Celebrity

"I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon"

Roger Bacon, Philosopher

"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science"

Arthur Machen, Author

"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it"

Nils-Axel Morner, Scientist

"I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway"

Nigel Kneale, Writer

"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people"

Matthew Fox

"The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet"

Walter Reisch, Scientist

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission"

Vannevar Bush, Scientist

"Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

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

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years"

Pauley Perrette, Actress

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs"

Francis Darwin, Scientist

"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy"

Eliot Spitzer, Lawyer

"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them"

Thomas Kuhn, Writer

"When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know"

Joseph Roux, Clergyman

"I was particularly good at math and science"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write"

James Rollins, Author

"Math is sometimes called the science of patterns"

Ronald Graham, Mathematician

"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot"

Monique Coleman, Actress

"When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man"

James Sanborn, Sculptor

"However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world"

John Sladek, Author

"There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today"

David Baltimore, Scientist

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