Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Wortley Montagu

A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

Marshall McLuhan

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Marshall McLuhan

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

Marshall McLuhan

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Marshall McLuhan

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Paul Auster

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

Paul Auster

In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and two times three are two different matters, distinct and separate propositions.

Paul Auster

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

Naomi Klein

It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

Newt Gingrich

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

Noam Chomsky

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Harry Shearer

I was a Political Science major.

Fred Hoyle

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Fred Hoyle

A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

Fred Hoyle

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

Fred Hoyle

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Frank Herbert

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

George Henry Lewes

Science is not addressed to poets.

George Henry Lewes

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

George Henry Lewes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Graham Parker

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

George Herbert

'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

Jean de la Bruyere

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

Nathan Fillion

I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

Kate Clinton

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

Omar N. Bradley

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Oliver Goldsmith

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.