Quotes about science
science organization religion
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy. Heinz Pagels
science piano composition
A Composition on the Piano Johann Sebastian Bach
science wiser conscience
Conscience is wiser than science. Johann Kaspar Lavater
science moon mercury
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
science technology mind
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
science technology ideas
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
science men age
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
science perception gone
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
science knowing study
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
science men limits
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
science scientist faculty
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. Hans Selye
science people progress
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it? Harlan Ellison
science thinking names
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' Gustave Flaubert
science men doctors
DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'
science law america
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.. Gilbert K. Chesterton
science technology firsts
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
science thinking numbers
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... John Dryden
science action theory
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. John Maynard Smith
science silence research
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. John Lahr
science two scandal
No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal. John Banville
science ideas argument
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. Carl Sagan
science journey reality
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles M. Schulz
science years abel
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. Charles Hermite
science busy ends
Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. Charles Henry Parkhurst
science engineering may
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. Benoit Mandelbrot
science self religion
The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds. Edgar Cayce
science tendencies increase
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out. Edwin Land
science agency wings
We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency. Edward Kennedy
science thinking path
[When thinking about the new relativity and quantum theories] I have felt a homesickness for the paths of physical science where there are ore or less discernible handrails to keep us from the worst morasses of foolishness. Arthur Eddington
science bottles atoms
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
science atoms levels
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.
science causes force
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
science verbs physics
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."