Quotes about science
science men air
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. Lucretius
science past infinite-time
Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness! Lucretius
science age inquiry
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth. Louis Kronenberger
science people interesting
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter. Louis Kronenberger
science past views
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science. Michael Crichton
science agendas
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! Michael Crichton
science men jurassic-park
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. Michael Crichton
science faces world
That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest. Michael Crichton
science prejudice opinion
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. Michael Crichton
science men proud
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man. Michel de Montaigne
science suing
Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.
science men numbers
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number. Alexis Carrel
science
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. Richard P. Feynman
science
But theyve got it pretty much down to a science now,
science
I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.' Carrie Vaughn
science idols moral
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. Jean Paul
science men air
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. Jerome Lawrence
science sea borders
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
science scientist
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. Jacques Yves Cousteau
science men curiosity
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. Jacques Yves Cousteau
science fiction science-fiction
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. Jack Vance
science sake fiction
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. Jack Vance
science knowing progress
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard
science study physics
...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness. Gary Zukav
science opposites would-be
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose. Hippocrates
science giving long
Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible. Hippocrates
science lessons diagnosis
I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded. Hippocrates
science politician scientist
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be Evelyn Waugh
science technology statistics
[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics. Evan Esar
science men technology
A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. Evan Esar
science technology statistics
[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form. Evan Esar
science statistics experts
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. Evan Esar
science hands two
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. Ernst Haeckel