976 private quotes tagged science

“Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.”— Joel Edgerton

“Science is organized knowledge.”— Herbert Spencer

“When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.”— Warwick Davis

“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”— Karl Kraus

“Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.”— Eric Ries

“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”— Paul Klee

“I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.”— Rainn Wilson

“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.”— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.”— Bruno Bettelheim

“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.”— William Petersen

“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”— Edward Tufte

“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.”— Alvin Toffler

“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”— Leslie Fiedler

“Art and science have their meeting point in method.”— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”— William Osler

“Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.”— Jacob Bronowski

“Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.”— Julia Roberts

“Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”— Paracelsus

“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”— Publilius Syrus

“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.”— Denis Diderot

“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”— Earl Wilson

“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.”— Herbert Spencer

“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”— Thomas Huxley

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”— W. H. Auden