976 private quotes tagged science

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“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”— Noam Chomsky
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”— Carl Sagan
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“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.”— Dave Barry
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”— Bill Gates
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“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”— Woodrow Wilson
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“When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.”— Steven Wright
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“A 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
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“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”— Carl Sagan
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“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”— Francis Bacon
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“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”— E. B. White
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“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”— Ray Bradbury
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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”— John F. Kennedy
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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”— Max Planck
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“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”— Karl Marx
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“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”— Carl Sagan
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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”— Albert Einstein
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“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”— Aldous Huxley