Quotes about science
science past years
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further. Thomas Huxley
science men want
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
science common-sense common
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
science facts delusion
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.
science too-much possibility
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything...
science views trying
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
science superstitions birth
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
science simple men
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.
science function accounts
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
science technology two-sides
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
science sin blind
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
science common-sense logic
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
science soul temples
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. Thomas Browne
science metaphor scientist
Science is all metaphor. Timothy Leary
science opposites statistics
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. Thomas Sowell
science years variables
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
science statistics disaster
Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
science statistics term
All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
science differences different
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
science men statistics
Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic Robert Kennedy
science matter form
It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form. Robert Grosseteste
science careers cells
Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan. Scott Adams
science reality odds
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?
science ideas rooms
Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.
science names dollars
For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.
science going-away may
Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.
science thinking machines
Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.
science simple tonight
Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.
science language instruments
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. Thomas Jefferson
science sorcery wands
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
science men names
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is. Simone Weil
science voiceless scientist
Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.
science past discovery
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.