Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

Geoffrey West

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.

Michio Kaku

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Cynthia Kenyon

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Annalee Newitz

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Stephen Jay Gould

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Stephen Jay Gould

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We've got a long way to go to get to the science orbit.

We're going to be able to see things we've never seen before and do science never done before.

Tyler Cowen

Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.

Douglas Adams

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Donald Knuth

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

Donald Knuth

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

Colin Powell

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.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

e. e. cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. B. White

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Douglas Hofstadter

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Douglas Hofstadter

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.

Abraham Pais

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Ann Druyan

Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

Albert Einstein

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Albert Einstein

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

Albert Einstein

In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions.

Albert Einstein

All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.

Albert Einstein

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.