Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Esar

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

Evan Esar

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

Evan Esar

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Ernst Haeckel

Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Erwin Chargaff

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

Erwin Chargaff

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Florence Nightingale

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Fletcher Knebel

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Herbert Hoover

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...

Henri Frederic Amiel

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jack Vance

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Jack Vance

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Gaston Bachelard

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gary Zukav

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

Fulton J. Sheen

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Christine O'Donnell

There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a fact, it needs to consistently have the same results after it goes through a series of tests. The tests that they put-that they use to support evolution do not have consistent results. Now too many people are blindly accepting evolution as fact. But when you get down to the hard evidence, it's merely a theory.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Many small make a great.

Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.