Quotes about science
science atoms impossible
Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large. Anaxagoras
science stones littles
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
science magic looks
Science, you don't know, looks like magic. Christopher Moore
science technology want
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Douglas Adams
science technology mathematics
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. Donald Knuth
science dna patents
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
science fields degrees
I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it. Colin Powell
science technology giving
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss
science finals forget
Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
science doors next
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. e. e. cummings
science space views
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. E. B. White
science thinking
I am the thought you are now thinking. Douglas Hofstadter
science order eerie
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
science keys psychology
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. Amos Bronson Alcott
science may scientist
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
science logic assumption
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. Ambrose Bierce
science substance culture
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
science medical-profession humour
HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
science blue two
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
science animal path
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
science astronomers conjecture
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
science two shade
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
science giving fool
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
science railroads purpose
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
science illustration lovely
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
science frogs reptiles
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
science snakes funeral
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
science physicians graves
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
science cosmetics arsenic
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
science body physicians
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
science bowels disorder
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
science errors method
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
science phrenology dupes
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.