976 private quotes tagged science

“We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.”— Jared Diamond

“Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.”— John Charles Polanyi

“Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.”— Jared Diamond

“Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.”— John Charles Polanyi

“As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.”— Murray Gell-Mann

“Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.”— Robert Lanza

“In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.”— Steve Wozniak

“Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.”— Fred Saberhagen

“You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.”— Murray Gell-Mann

“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.”— John Charles Polanyi

“There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.”— Margot Kidder

“Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.”— Brit Marling

“Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.”— Richard Leakey

“I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.”— Iain Banks

“Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.”— Ray Comfort

“A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.”— Iain Banks

“And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.”— John B. S. Haldane

“Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.”— George Wald

“Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.”— Roland Joffe

“But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.”— Michael Shermer

“I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.”— Brit Marling

“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.”— Ray Comfort

“Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.”— Rudy Rucker

“I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.”— Helena Christensen