Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Barbara Thompson

The long ones were just devastating. Science stopped.

James Surowiecki

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most scientific work never gets noticed. Study after study has shown that most scientific papers are read by almost no one, while a small number of papers are read by many people.

Emily Dickinson

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

Emile Durkheim

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Ellsworth Huntington

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

Hilaire Belloc

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Henry James

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is wiser than science.

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.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Tim Hunt

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Trofim Lysenko

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

Hendrik Poinar

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Olivia Wilde

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Ray Comfort

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

A. E. van Vogt

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Aeschylus

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Abraham Flexner

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Henry Petroski

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.