Thomas Hobbes Quotes

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Future
  • Science
  • Crazy

• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• I'm very interested in science.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Science
  • Very
  • Interested

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Life
  • Science
  • Look

• Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Science
  • Internet
  • Modern

• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Day
  • End

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Day

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Science
  • Magic
  • Sufficiently

• Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Week
  • Benefit
  • U.S.

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Science

• In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Future

• When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Fun
  • Smile

• See what I have to put up with every night?

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Night

• When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Great
  • School

• To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Benefit
  • Human Mind