Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellsworth Huntington

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

David Lee

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

Edward Teller

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

Edward Teller

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Edward Teller

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Edward Teller

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.

Hermann von Helmholtz

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Hermann von Helmholtz

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Henry Spencer

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Henry Taube

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.

Henri Poincare

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Henri Poincare

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

Henri Poincare

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

Henri Poincare

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

Henri Poincare

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

Henri Poincare

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Henri Poincare

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

Henri Poincare

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Henri Poincare

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henrik Ibsen

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Hilary Putnam

Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.

Hilaire Belloc

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Heraclitus

There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Henry Ward Beecher

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry James

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

Henry Clay

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Heinz Pagels

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Heinz Pagels

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.