Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Francis Bacon

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon

By far the best proof is experience.

Francis Bacon

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Jean Paul

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Jerome Lawrence

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

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.

I've been doing work on my science project.

Tyler Cowen

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

Irving Langmuir

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Annalee Newitz

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

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

Michael Shanks

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Michael Shermer

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Michael Shermer

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

Niels Bohr

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Niels Bohr

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Nassau William Senior

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

Nassau William Senior

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

Morris Kline

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

Morris Kline

The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.

Ray Bradbury

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

Ray Bradbury

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Sheri S. Tepper

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Lucretius

See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly toil, The higher it rebounds, with swift recoil. Yet that the beam would of itself ascend No man will rashly venture to contend. Thus too the flame has weight, though highly rare, Nor mounts but when compelled by heavier air.