976 private quotes tagged science

“Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.”— Mike Johanns

“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”— Robert A. Heinlein

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”— Barbara Tuchman

“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.”— Joe Biden

“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”— Paul Valery

“Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.”— Daisaku Ikeda

“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.”— David Soul

“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”— Charles Babbage

“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”— Stephen Jay Gould

“Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.”— Nancy Reagan

“I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.”— James Hansen

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”— Jimi Hendrix

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”— John Dewey

“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”— Cyril Connolly

“We especially need imagination in science.”— Maria Mitchell

“Intelligence is not a science.”— Frank Carlucci

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”— Louis Pasteur

“Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.”— Vince Cable

“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”— Stephen Leacock

“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”— Louis Pasteur

“A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.”— Charles Babbage

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”— Immanuel Kant

“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”— Hippocrates

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”— Will Durant

“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”— John Calvin