Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacob Bronowski

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Jacob Bronowski

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

George Andrews

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.

George Andrews

There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

Matthew Arnold

The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

Max Weber

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Mary E. Pearson

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Khalil Gibran

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Khalil Gibran

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

Jonathan Swift

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

Jonathan Swift

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Jonathan Swift

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Olympia Brown

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Johann Sebastian Bach

A Composition on the Piano

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is wiser than science.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We see only what we know.