Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zelda Fitzgerald

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Kenneth Miller

If you use scripture as science, you're not elevating scripture, you're profaning it.

James Gleick

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

Alastair Reynolds

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Jeri Ryan

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Martin Chalfie

Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

I'm ecstatic. I think it's a win for science, a win for students and a win for the state of Ohio.

Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

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.

Jacob Bronowski

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Jacob Bronowski

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

Jacob Bronowski

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Jacob Bronowski

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

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.]

James Anthony Froude

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

James Anthony Froude

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Jacques Monod

Je cherche à comprendre.

Jacques Monod

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Henry A. Wallace

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Henry Adams

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

Henry A. Kissinger

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.