Quotes about science
science sea land
Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together. Ovid
science
History is the science of things which are not repeated. Paul Valery
science profound structure
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
science hands boxing
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other. George Johnson
science joy curiosity
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs
science statistics ratios
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios. Logan Pearsall Smith
science members academy
As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy John F. Kennedy
science technology men
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
science eternity said
IT IS SAID TO AWAIT CERTAINTY IS TO AWAIT ETERNITY. Jonas Salk
science people sun
The people - could you patent the sun ?
science vaccines polio-vaccine
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
science law divinity
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. Joyce Carol Oates
science simple melancholy
The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture, is one of the most striking as well as melancholy facts in surgical practice. Joseph Lister
science wish proud
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.
science data games
No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire. James Lovelock
science men doe
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it. James M. Barrie
science broken progress
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god. John Harvey Kellogg
science evil giving
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.
science simple hands
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.
science evil alcohol
Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun and when the final verdict is rendered, it will appear that tobacco is evil and only evil; that as a drug it is far more deadly than alcohol, killing in a dose a thousand times smaller, and that it does not possess a single one of the quasi merits of alcohol.
science found function
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. John Henry Newman
science men literature
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
science shrinking mysterious
The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking. John Desmond Bernal
science birth certain
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.
science would-be research
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.
science men atmosphere
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
science essence long
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
science men animal
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature. John Dewey
science religion christ
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. John Calvin
science lasts poet
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. John B. S. Haldane
science-and-religion truce
There can be no truce between science and religion.
science two use
A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on. I know what you will say next, and I know what you will do next.' The distinguished scientist promptly sat down on the floor, turned two back somersaults, and returned to his seat. 'There,' he said with a smile. 'That's to prove that you're not always right.'
science progress culture
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. Johan Huizinga