Quotes about science
science law together
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. William James
science expression talking
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.
science authority
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
science abuse way
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
science past taught-us
All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.
science enough absurd
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
science soul body
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body. William Gilbert
science giving literature
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them. Samuel Butler
science half deny
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
science may connections
The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest. Samuel Horsley
science mysterious affair
Mysterious affair, electricity. Samuel Beckett
science wish alive
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events! W. H. Auden
science skills degrees
Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
science progress attention
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. William Cobbett
science reflection long
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. William Congreve
science design fields
To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field. William Cowper
science age earth
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
science sun stones
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. Ursula K. Le Guin
science mirrors car
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
science years hearing
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? Walt Whitman
science leaves-of-grass amazement
O amazement of things-even the least particle!
science age lines
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. Saul Bellow
science healthy fiction
Science fiction is very healthy in its form. Robert Sheckley
science fiction would-be
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
science fiction critics
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
science space wish
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Robert Quillen
science technology understanding
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. Sarah Zettel
science broken weight
It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved. William Harvey
science desire causes
[Science is] the desire to know causes. William Hazlitt
science years fifty
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. Wendell Willkie
science development may
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. William Osler
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