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Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Keyword(s): Politics , Environment , People
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov - Keyword(s): Life , Society , Wisdom
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
Sam Harris - Keyword(s): , Thinking , Politics , Humankind
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
Bernard M. Baruch - Keyword(s): Curiosity , Genius
Show me a Nation with a science-hostile government, and I'll show you a society with failing health, wealth, & security.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Keyword(s): , Government , Society , Health
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Keyword(s): Ability , Peace , People
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas Henry Huxley - Keyword(s): Faith , Religion
Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde - Keyword(s): Religion
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov - Keyword(s):
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Keyword(s): Imagination
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz - Keyword(s): Medical , Religion , Society
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life...
Bertrand Russell - Keyword(s): , Life , Happiness
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain - Keyword(s): Investment
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Henry Louis Mencken - Keyword(s): Birth Control , Religion
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
Ernst Mach - Keyword(s): , Adaptation , Experience , Thinking
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris - Keyword(s): , Success , Religion , Dogma
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God.
Steven Weinberg - Keyword(s): , Belief , God , Religion
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Carl Sagan - Keyword(s): Politics , Religion , Mistakes
The great men of science are supreme artists.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s):
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 - Keyword(s): Life
DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
Kenneth Boulding - Keyword(s):
Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s): Life
Ethics and Science need to shake hands.
Richard Clarke Cabot - Keyword(s):
Reason, Observation, and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Keyword(s): Reason
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
Sam Harris - Keyword(s): , Reason , Knowledge , World
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Keyword(s): Ignorance
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand - Keyword(s): God
Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana - Keyword(s): Ignorance
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
Robert M. Pirsig - Keyword(s):
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
Leon Lederman - Keyword(s): Religion
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
Henry Louis Mencken - Keyword(s): Religion , Mothers
Science is simply common sense at its best.
Thomas Henry Huxley - Keyword(s):
Observations always involve theory.
Edwin Hubble - Keyword(s):
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
E. Rutherford - Keyword(s):
When gravity calls, something falls.
J.L.W. Brooks - Keyword(s):
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking - Keyword(s): , Reason , Passion
Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.
Aldous Huxley - Keyword(s):
Physics is geometric proof on steroids.
S.A. Sachs - Keyword(s):
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
Stephen Jay Gould - Keyword(s):
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
B.K.S. Iyengar - Keyword(s): , Humankind , Health , Yoga
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
John Moffat - Keyword(s): Imagination
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Keyword(s):
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
Karl Marx - Keyword(s): Nature , History
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw - Keyword(s):
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Henry David Thoreau - Keyword(s):
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey - Keyword(s): Imagination
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno - Keyword(s): Ideas
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton - Keyword(s): Faith , Skepticism
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Henry Louis Mencken - Keyword(s): Reason
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Abraham Flexner - Keyword(s):
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
Immanuel Kant - Keyword(s): Math
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck - Keyword(s): , Truth , Generations
The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
Sam Harris - Keyword(s): Investment , Education
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
Bill Clinton - Keyword(s): Internet , Cats
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell - Keyword(s): Math
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan - Keyword(s):
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
Lewis Thomas - Keyword(s): Music
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s): Philosophy
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
Carl Sagan - Keyword(s):
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen - Keyword(s):
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith - Keyword(s):
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
Max Planck - Keyword(s): Nature
The results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
Fritjof Capra - Keyword(s):
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann - Keyword(s): Religion
But the great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact - which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...
Thomas Henry Huxley - Keyword(s):
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein - Keyword(s):
The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.
Jason Love - Keyword(s):
I am, and always will be, a servant of your cosmic curiosity.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Keyword(s):
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun - Keyword(s):
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Sam Harris - Keyword(s): Morality , Psychology , Society
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Keyword(s):
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant - Keyword(s): Art , Philosophy
The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Henry Huxley - Keyword(s):
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
Francois Rabelais - Keyword(s):
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein - Keyword(s):
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.
Isidor Isaac Rabi - Keyword(s): Education
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts - Keyword(s): , Universe
Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare - Keyword(s):
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernal - Keyword(s):
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
John Dewey - Keyword(s): Nature
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
Charles Peirce - Keyword(s): Philosophy
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s): Literature
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman - Keyword(s): Generations
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
Rudolph Ladenburg - Keyword(s):
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole - Keyword(s): Mistakes
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
Fred Alan Wolfe - Keyword(s):
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Mike Adams - Keyword(s):
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Anton Chekhov - Keyword(s):
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
Bertrand Russell - Keyword(s):
Quantum physics makes me so happy-it's like looking at the universe naked.
Sheldon Cooper - Keyword(s): , Universe
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.
Ken Jenkins - Keyword(s): , Universe
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
Richard Davisson - Keyword(s):
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Bertrand Russell - Keyword(s):
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
William Lawrence Bragg - Keyword(s):
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss - Keyword(s):
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Edwin Hubble - Keyword(s): , Universe
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas Browne - Keyword(s):
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates - Keyword(s):
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
Gordon Allport - Keyword(s):
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Karl Friedrich Gauss - Keyword(s):
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Evelyn Fox Keller - Keyword(s):
Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.
Steven Molaro - Keyword(s):
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
Robert L. Park - Keyword(s): , Universe
The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
Claude Bernard - Keyword(s):
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine - Keyword(s):
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.
Theodore Roszak - Keyword(s): Nature
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green - Keyword(s):
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Henry J. Tillman - Keyword(s):
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller - Keyword(s):
The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.
F.K. Richtmeyer - Keyword(s):
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald - Keyword(s):
But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin - Keyword(s):
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Gerard Piel - Keyword(s):
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
J.T. Fraser - Keyword(s):
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Frank Wilczek - Keyword(s): Nature