Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xenophanes

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Samuel Johnson

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a scientist.

William Osler

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

Jonathan Swift

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

Jacob Bronowski

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Henry David Thoreau

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry Ford

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.

Henry Ford

Any colour - so long as it's black.

Malcolm Wallop

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

Johannes Kepler

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

Johannes Kepler

Eyesight should learn from reason.

Johannes Kepler

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

James Hutton

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

James Russell Lowell

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

James Russell Lowell

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science.

Laurence Sterne

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Friedrich Engels

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Friedrich Engels

And what is impossible to science?

Friedrich Engels

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Friedrich Schiller

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

Frederick Soddy

Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.

Frederick Soddy

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Louis Pasteur

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies...

Louis Pasteur

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.

Louis Pasteur

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Lord Byron

What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets, ...